A Special Trade

Nelly and Bartholomew are neighbors. When Nelly is small, Bartholomew pushes her in the stroller. They

CHAARRRRRGE! Through Mrs. Pringle’s sprinkler. They BUMP over Mr. Oliver’s driveway. The neighbors call them “ham and eggs” because they are always together—even on the coldest day of winter when everyone else is inside. As Bartholomew gets older, things start to change. But Nelly is older, too, and the change is really a trade—a special trade. The droll text and whimsical illustrations combine perfectly in a story about friendship for very young children. Ages 4-8 (or for all ages)

Honors:

ALA Notable Book, 1978
Filmstrip, Encyclopedia Brittanica
Scholastic Bookclub
Television Reading: Captain Kangeroo
Television Reading: KCET's Storytime
Live Film: Barr Films Pasadena (top 10 sellers)
Subsequent Video of above: Barr Films, Pasadena
Review Horn Book Magazines (only does "winner" reviews)
Nominated Irma Simonton Black Award
1978 ALA Notable Children's Books in Social Studies
1988 Choices (Assoc. of Booksellers for Children
Nominee "Golden Sower" Award
Phil. Yearly Quaker Mtg. Booklist
Reprint, "Stories for Free Children" Ms. Magazine 1979
Textbook reprint "Discoveries," Houghton Mifflin 1986
NFSR Film Awards Competition
Houghton Mifflin Lit. Readers Book 2,1989
Pocketful of Stars, Ginn & Co. 1989
Going Places, Silver Burdett & Ginn 1989
"Literacy Place," Scholastic, 1994
Foreign book reprint, Great Britain
Reprint Pennsylvania State Schools
Translation of book into Japanese, Dowakan Ltd. Publ.
Textbook reprint McGraw Hill 1999 Social Studies
2003 Social Studies
2007 Pupil Ed. Literary
Reprint, Livonia, MI Schools
Adaptation into Play, The Children's Theatre of Minn. 2007