I Didn't Order A Best Friend: Very Unscheduled Arrival

She did NOT order a best friend.NOTICE OF UNAUTHORIZED DELIVERY ITEM RECEIVED: one (1) best friend, unrequested. DELIVERED: Tuesday, by moving truck, to the house next door. DELIVERY METHOD: knocked, then said, "Hi. I'm Sam. We're best friends now." INTERVIEW CONDUCTED: none. PAPERWORK FILED: none. WAIT LIST CONSULTED: none.Best friend is a big position. There are steps. There are forms. Sam skipped every single one - two popsicles by lunch, a walkie-talkie by Wednesday, and a whole sidewalk of chalk reading WORLD'S BEST NEIGHBOR, arrow pointing at her house. The spelling is creative.So one very organized girl picks up a ruler and opens an APPOINTMENT BOOK. VISITS: by appointment only. OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays. Ten minutes.Sam listens to every single word, looks extremely excited about the rules, and books every Tuesday until summer. In purple crayon.FINAL POSTING, taped to the fence in her biggest letters: NO MORE WALK-INS. Sam reads it twice. Then Sam goes home.Tuesday comes. Ten o'clock comes. Ten o'clock goes. STATUS: first no-show in company history. One popsicle is fine. It is half as good.From the creator of I Didn't Order a Baby, I Didn't Order a Monster, I Didn't Order a Kiss, I Didn't Order Grandma, I Didn't Order a Hiccup, I Didn't Order a Cat, I Didn't Order a Substitute, and I Didn't Order Winter comes a ninth deadpan-funny story about a big feeling - this time, the quiet panic of being wanted more than you planned for. It lets a kid put a friendship through proper channels, takes her paperwork completely seriously, and then hands her a marker and one word she needs to cross out.Perfect for: - Kids ages 4-8 who like to know exactly who is coming over and when- Slow-to-warm kids, new neighbors, and anyone who has been befriended without being consulted- Moving-day, new-house, and first-week-of-anything gifts- Read-alouds with one deadpan narrator and one relentlessly cheerful best friend40 pages of warm, funny illustrations, one extremely official appointment book, and one word crossed out in marker.