Lilibet Makes a Friend
$32.03
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
Lilibet has tools, a lab, and a notebook. She also has lots of friends, like Calico Cate, Tom Zombie, and Dire Pup. It’s just that they’re all imaginary. So she plans a new project, REAL FRIEND 1.0, and makes a list of requirements:
- Knows the difference between a bug and an insect (extremely important!)
- Never calls her robot face
- Or computer brain
- Does not ask if Lilibet is a boy or a girl
As she sets out to build a friend, she is joined…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781368104197 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1368104193 |
| Author: | Kersten Hamilton, Shanda McCloskey |
| Publisher: | Hyperion |
| Imprint: | Hyperion |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 414g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 237mm x 287mm |
| Audience Age: | 3-7 |
Critics Review
Praise for Lilibet Makes a Friend
★“A friendship tale as unique as it is heartbreaking and as winsome as it is moving.” —Kirkus Review (starred review)
Kersten Hamilton
Kersten Hamilton is the critically acclaimed author of books for toddlers, teens, and all people in between. Her fast-paced stories are loved by readers around the world.
RED TRUCK (illustrated by Valeria Petrone) has sold almost a quarter of a million copies and is the first in a series of machine books for young readers that now includes:
- YELLOW COPTER
- BLUE BOAT
- GREEN TRACTOR
- ORANGE EXCAVATOR
- MERRY CHRISTMAS, RED TRUCK!
FIRST FRIEND (illustrated by Jaime Kim), a picture book about the evolution of dogs, received a starred review from SLJ.
IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT, the second book in the Goblin Wars trilogy, led Kirkus to call her “a wizard at creating tension.”
Kersten has worked as a ranch hand, a wood cutter, a lumberjack, a census taker, a wrangler for wilderness guides, and an archeological surveyor. She currently lives in New Mexico, where, when not writing, she hunts dinosaurs in the Ojito Wilderness.
Shanda McCloskey is an author and illustrator of children’s picture books and graphic novels. Her work includes Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll! (written by Catherin Thimmesh), which was called “Funny, chock-full of science, and wonderfully complicated” by Kirkus in a starred review. She lives with her husband, daughters, and dog in Georgia.
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