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Catie & Josephine
(illustrated chapter book, published by Houghton Mifflin, fall 2003)
Catie Calloway's family has moved a lot, which is rough on an only child. When Catie arrives in another new school, she is glad to meet Josephine, a girl who appears in the big old house that is her family's new home. It's been ages since either girl has had a friend. Instantly inseparable, the girls share their very different worlds; and, though they are no longer lonely, they soon discover their lives are not without problems. Catie and Josephine is a story about the power of friendship and the creative things friends sometimes have to do to stay together, especially when one is invisible to grownups and a bit stuck in her old fashioned ways.
(ages 6 and up)
Official Website: www.catieandjosephine.com
Awards and honors
·Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
·Washington Post Book of the Week
·Planetesme's Don't Miss List, 2003
Representative reviews
The believable dialogue and cool photographs make this strange and suspenseful book really come alive.
- The Washington Post
Fuqua and Parke have teamed up to produce a book that is almost a new genre. Computer-enhanced photographs illustrate a chapter book story with fine points and fantasy elements that mere words can barely describe.
- The Wichita Eagle (Kansas)
"… the photographs they have posed for, filled with special effects, are part of what makes this book so much fun. … strange and suspenseful…"
- The Sacramento Bee
Going one step beyond the imaginary friend concept, this book is both amusing and sad.
- New England Children's Bookselling Advisory Council
While reading Jonathon Scott Fuqua and Steven Parke's Catie & Josephine, my five year old daughter started counting down to bedtime as soon as the sun got low on the horizon.
- Baltimore Magazine
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