In other words, their friendship is made to look very natural. I gave this book 5 stars because even though the 2 main characters are different races, that is never mentioned in the book because that's not the point of the story. This gives evidence to the fact that sometimes friends argue and say ugly things, however they should still come back together and work on their friendship. This book will be used with friendship and diversity because of its vocabulary choice. Instead of the angry words chosen in the book, have the students rewrite a new solution to Matthew and Tilly’s dispute. The vocabulary in the text is a great opportunity to focused and discussed on “not nice” words with students. She gives great verbal presentation of how friends use their words when angry and also to solve problems. Although Jones’s recent work is non-fiction, her past work, as well as Matthew and Tilly, were based off her experiences or the experiences of people she knew. The story line by Jones expresses the issues that friends go through in the busy city.
The friends come back together and apologize for their words.
Offended Tilly and Matthew exchange their negative feelings using words and storm off in anguish to discover that playing alone is not fun. One day while coloring Matthew accidently broke Tilly’s crayon. They colored together and chew gum together. (Feb.This picture book is about two friends from the city Matthew and Tilly who spent all-day and everyday together. The fact that Matthew is white and Tilly is African-American adds further merit to this exemplary effort. There can never be too many books about the importance of friendship and forgiveness-especially when they are of this caliber. Text and illustrations are beautifully balanced: Peck's depiction of Matthew, sitting dejectedly on the stairs of his apartment building, seems to make the words ``By himself'' ring with loneliness. Apologies come quickly and easily, and the two are ``together again.'' This is not an unfamiliar tale, but it is told here with simple eloquence and poignancy. It is not long, though, before the two realize that everything is more fun when they have each other. But even the best of friends quarrel now and then-in this case, a broken purple crayon is the problem, and Matthew and Tilly go their separate ways. Matthew and Tilly live in the same neighborhood in the heart of a big city, and they do everything together: ride bikes, play street games, sell lemonade.
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