“In confiding language and energetic, elegantly controlled vignettes, Fogliano and Tamaki capture the feeling of giddy infatuation when a child first meets another and feels an instant bond—an event, and a book, worth celebrating.” -Publishers Weekly

”Kids will love this book. Yeah, it’s a visual/literary masterpiece of picture book art and writing but that means bupkiss if you hand it to a kid, or read it aloud to a group, and they’re bored to tears. Precisely because Fogliano knows how to talk on a kid’s level, precisely because Tamaki has made her art so visually appealing, this is the true reason this book succeeds. A kid will want to read it. An adult will want to read it. And they’ll both want to read it over and over and over again. So, for that matter, will you.” -SLJ

”The book honors the details of such simple and unaffected love, capturing intimately shared laughter and, during a pause in the action at its center, a tight hug around the neck. With text, color, and line cooperating seamlessly, Fogliano and Tamaki forge a friendship that rings true.” -The Horn Book

NPR Best Books 2020 / Society of Illustrators Original Art silver medal / Starred Reviews: School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books