KIRKUS REVIEW
A nicely crafted post-easy reader about friendship: Susan and Carolyn enjoy borrowing each other's things, but what the exchanges really mean is, ``I've got you as my best friend, and I'm so glad!'' There's a silly fight, depicted in succinct, believable dialogue; the fear of each that the other will find a new friend; reluctance to apologize; then a happy resolution when--after ``Susan had decided that she liked Carolyn more than she was mad at her''--each wraps the other's favorite thing as a gift and they literally meet halfway. Hewitt's informal sketches, touched up with green, make a good contribution to the approachable format. Send kids who enjoy this on to Patricia Wrightson's slightly more demanding, and subtler, The Sugar-Gum Tree (1992). (Young reader. 5-9)