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Some of My Best Friends Are Polka-Dot Pigs is a children’s book for all ages filled with playful, cumulative rhymes and cut-paper illustrations in brilliant colors. It follows a young artist (paintbrush in hand) through a free-spirited parade of friends. Author/illustrator Sara Anderson’s sharp imagination creates a world of crying hyenas, wandering pineapple feet, baggie-panted blondies, suspendered hillbillies, and moppety maisies that tumble about the pages of her book with celebratory abandon. This book honoring diversity begs to be read aloud. Once the words enter the air one cannot help but come under their spell: "Sticky Feet can’t be Neat/Marching Ants Climb your Pants/Dress in Red Stay in Bed/Porcupine Sky/Many Hats Wacky Bats / can’t Fly Don’t Cry/Polka Polka Polka-Dot/Whirly Purple Maisie”. A love of rhythmic language and a rich palette of colors permeate this celebration of individuality, love, and acceptance.

Sara Anderson

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