This is the fun sequel to Sophie's Squash. Remember Sophie who didn't want to cook her best friend Bernice, the squash?
In this book, Sophie is starting school. She would be nervous, but she has two squash sidekicks to make her brave.
There are all kinds of ways to sit with squash
If any kid came to school with two squash in her arms, I would adore that child. I mean really! The imagination, the stubbornness of insisting that yes, she WAS going to take her squash to school, and the certainty that that was just what needed to happen without a care in the world for what anyone thought. That, my friends, is a child who is going somewhere.
I always wanted to be that child.
Unfortunately, Sophie is also stubbornly certain that she will not make any friends in kindergarten.
Things were not like home. AND her classmates threatened to eat her real, true friends.
First day--a disaster.
Steven is fully supportive of imaginary friends.
Sophie accepts this--"Then you don't need me."
Sophie is clearly not accepting applications for new friends.
When you are in the same class as someone else, it is pretty difficult to ignore them completely.
Her mother and father have a chat with Sophie about the need for human friends.
Sophie declines'--"I have all the friends I need."
However, when you are with other kids all day, it is hard not to form friendships.\
When Roshni spilled her milk, Sophie almost shared her napkin.
Progress!
The time comes when Bonnie and Baxter are getting speckled and need to be tucked away for the winter.
Steven noticed her lack of friends and drew a consoling picture for Sophie.
Sophie was having none of it.
Poor Steven. Poor Sophie.
Sophie had a terrible, horrible, no good day.
Steven tries his best to make friends, offering his frog.
Steven is amazingly patient, I guess.
Through all her stubborness and certainty (and Steven's persistence) Sophie begins to understand how beautiful friendship could be.
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