Friendship is a fun concept. Who are friends? What are friends? And what can you do with friends? And there are all types of friendships, therefore all types of answers. And in Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab and A Bone for Bo: Painting with Georgia O’Keefe by Joan Waites, we find two different types of friends and two types of stories.(Both titles read via online reader copies.)
Hrab’s story is about Otis & Peanut. In this first volume, there are short stories where we follow everyday events and deal with them together. One friend is a long haired guinea pig and the other a naked mole rat. Together they figure out how to support each other and deal with change and other difficulties. Kelly Collier’s illustrations (in a graphic novel format) are simple, not overly filled with colorful details, but have the basics needed, and have a feeling of a classic story; like something I would have found from my grandparents’ childhood. Having read as an online reader, I am not sure of the size, but the story is best for the kindergarten to about second grade. 
And then we have a fictional story about two friends based in reality. A Bone for Bo: Painting with Georgia O’Keeffe talks about O’Keeffe, and focuses on her dog, Bo, reacts to her. We learn about the types of paintings she did, and her feelings about being inspired. And Waites takes the viewpoint that Bo probably found a lot of the bones she would have painted. The rest of the book I was not really caring about the text (though it is good) but how the illustrations were inspired by O’Keeffe’s work and things are flying off the pages. Bold colors and other items (plus actual paintings) bring O’Keefe and her work to life. I also read as Waites book as an online reader copy. 
