This new picture book by Erica Perl celebrates the imaginary friend. Ida's special friend, Dotty, comes to preschool with her at the end of a blue string, and there are plenty of other invisible friends there to keep her company. But as the year passes and the students get caught up in other interests, there are fewer and fewer imaginary friends and Ida begins to doubt if Dotty is welcome at school anymore, until she notices that her teacher carries a red string wherever she goes...

 

There are 30 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2010 by Abrams .

E. B. Goodale is the illustrator of Windows , written by Julia Denos, A Most Unusual Day , written by Sydra Mallery, and Richard Jackson's A Kiss for Akaraka . Erica S. Perl is the author of Chicken Butt!, Chicken Bedtime Is Really Early, Totally Tardy Marty and many other picture books. She lives in Washington DC. Henry Cole is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of And Tango Makes Three and Surfer Chick. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.