What do you do if you’re the new girl at school and no one smiles at you or talks to you or sits by you at lunch? Well, if you’re Lissy, you make a friend. You make an origami crane to be your new friend at your new school.
Author/illustrator Grace Lin uses wonderfully vibrant patterns and colors to tell the story Lissy’s Friends (Viking 2007). As the new girl, Lissy hasn’t made friends yet, so she makes a paper crane to be her friend.
After school Lissy’s mother asks her, “Did you make any friends in school today?” She answers, “Well . . . I did make one friend.”
Lissy makes herself more and more origami animals. Soon she has a whole flock of origami friends. And these paper friends keep her company and help her . . . until she can make people friends of her own.
