Publisher's Weekly Review

The previous cocreators celebrate friendship in all its forms with this affectionate greeting card--style paean. Companions of varying ability, body shape, skin tone, and species feature in spreads that loosely represent Miller's tender rhymes ("You'll be the key to my lock./ The right shoe for my sock"). Wheeler's absorbing multimedia artwork has an enchanted quality; characters ride insects, float in outer space, and serve treats in a rosy candy land. In one scene, the friends--outfitted in diving gear and mermaid fins--swim among jellyfish and seahorses in a fish tank ("You're the soap that scrubs my dish./ You're the flakes that feed my fish"). Suggesting that neither storms, mistakes, distance, nor age can come between besties, this reiterative tribute extols long-term fellowship. Ages 4--8. (Mar.)