By Julie Halpern, Illustrated by Matthew Cordell

Category: Juvenile Fiction, Preschool to 3rd Grade
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Pub Date: September 27, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 0618420045

From the Publisher:

When friends move away, it is hard for them to leave and even harder to watch them go. Toby’s best friend moved yesterday, and now all Toby has is his friend’s baseball glove (which smells like Parmesan cheese). Toby is bored and alone. But then the snow starts to fall, and Toby finds an unexpected flurry of friends . . . With humor and warmth, Julie Halpern and Matthew Cordell tell the story of one little boy who learns about friendship, change, and the nature of the snowflake.

Julie Halpern is an award-winning school librarian in suburban Chicago. Matthew Cordell is, among other things, a printer, a graphic designer, and an artist. He is the illustrator of the novel The Gorillas of Gill Park. Julie and Matthew are married and live in Chicago with their massive Siamese cat, Tobin. Together they enjoy eating french-fry pizza, going to comic book conventions, and reading to each other. This is their first book together.