About the Publication
by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell (author)
Sophia Lawrence (illustrator)
Paperback
$19.99 CAD
Buy NowMy Best Friend Forever will charm readers, young and old, with its delightful pictures and rhythmic verses. In its pages, meet a character with lots of personality, who captures the magic of childhood friendships, playing on the beach, making snow angels, and hunting for four-leaf clovers.
This story-poem talks about happiness, sadness, daydreams, and the carefree joys of childhood. It explores the meaning of friendship in a celebration of imagination, wonder, and the mind of a child. My Best Friend Forever reminds us that friendships come in all shapes, sizes, colours, and kinds. Like the friendship in this story, real friends make you smile, laugh, and live.
Enjoy this romp through childhood, making memories and a friend along the way.
Product Details
- Publisher: The Pictou Bee Press (October 2025)
- Language: English
- Softcover: 36 pages
- ISBN: 978-0-920297-09-4
- Item Weight: 152 g
- Dimensions: 21.59 x 21.59 x 0.3 cm (8.5 x 8.5 x 0.1 in)
About the Author
Dr. Laurie Stanley-Blackwell resides in Amherst, Nova Scotia. An historian by training, she has a lifelong love for writing and for the stories of Maritime Canada. Her most recent books include Hanging Out With The Haggis and Big Rory Returns to Market Square. My Best Friend Forever is based on her childhood memories of spending time with her toes in the sand and her head in the clouds.
About the Illustrator
Sophia Lawrence is a Nova Scotian queer artist, writer, and youth-educator. A Fine Arts graduate from Mount Allison University, she works in such media as painting, video, puppetry, and drawing. The Pictou Bee Press is pleased to introduce Sophia’s creative talents to its readers. Her work is light-hearted and playful. This is the first children’s book that Sophia has illustrated and we are sure that it is the first of many.