I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this little book. I loved the rhyming, the story and the little lesson at the end. The book, overall was excellent. The illustrations were a disappointment. They were boring, and unexceptional, some of them were repeated, and they actually distracted me from the story. The story and rhyming were so good that I feel this story deserved some wonderful illustrations to go with it (I think that some beautiful watercolor paintings would fit this book well.)

So, I liked this book a lot. The story was cute, the rhyming was good, and the lesson was wonderful, but the pictures were not good. ( )

Dr. Orly has done it again, this time she’s teaching her young readers the true meaning of friendship. And she’s in attempting to accomplish this goal she doesn’t hit her young readers over the head with this lesson nor does she talk down to them either; instead she does it in a wonderful subliminal manner, which they can immediately grasp and understand.

While the princess might have selected the ears, mouth, hands and heart when she asked all the candidates vying to become her friend which is the best part of a person’s body, she already knew what the only answer could possibly be. The princess knew that for a true friendship to exist it can’t be based on a specific aspect [part] of another person it has to be based on their total personae. In the end only one individual, around her age, had been able to give her the answer she was looking for.

When you have a book written in rhyme, it aids in grabbing and keeping her reader’s attention for the book, from the beginning to the end. If you have any doubts regarding this, just think of the Dr. Seuss you read as a child, I know I have. The illustrations in this book are complementing the text quite well.

For helping her readers understand the meaning of friendship I happy to give Ms. Katz 5 STARS for her endeavor here. ( )