Friendship of Hesper and Rani

"The pond near the edge of the meadow glistened silver-gold in the sunlight. Looking like a magic mirror, it sat in the midst of cattails & low bushes surrounded by a carpet of lemon-green, apple-green forest-green grass." So begins the story about a tadpole & caterpillar who become friends & see each other through the trauma they experience as their bodies change to frog & butterfly. With 50 pages of wonderfully realistic illustrations done in green ink by Marsha Mello, the characters come to life. It's an excellent resource book for teachers because the life cycles of the leopard frog & skipper butterfly are uniquely woven into this friendship story. The Friendship Of Hesper & Rani is one of a series of books written to help kids grow up & to learn to deal with their emotions & it includes The Clouds That Bumped, which details with anger & crying & The Rotten Chicken, which deals with name calling & self-esteem. These books are stories for the child in everyone.Solomon, Letitia Ursa is the author of 'Friendship of Hesper and Rani', published 1990 under ISBN 9780961575649 and ISBN 0961575646.