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Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Illustrated by Christine Davenier

Fiction (Series)

Ages 6 to 9

Harcourt, 2001, 0-15-205680-7

  More than anything Iris wants to ride Rain, the wild horse. Her friend Walter tells her that she can’t ride Rain. Still, when Iris tries to make friends with Rain he does his best to help her. He explains that horses like “clucking and carrots and gentle hands” and not loud noises and Grandpa’s special cookies.

  So Iris clucks, and speaks softly, and brings Rain carrots, but the horse does not respond. She wonders what she is doing wrong. Perhaps the horse doesn’t like her. Walter suggests that Rain might be afraid of Iris. So the children keep on trying. Day after day they visit Rain and talk to her, offering her carrots.

  Then one day Rain comes up to Iris and takes a bite of carrot. Bit by bit they gain the horse’s confidence until, at last, Rain allows the children to ride on her back.

 In this winning chapter book two friends help each other solve some worrying problems. With each others support the problems end up being a lot less difficult to deal, with and a solution is found in each case. The two stories in this book are carefully written to suit beginner readers. The stories are warm and perfectly capture the special closeness that good friends share.

  This title is one in a series of books about Iris and Walter

 

 

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