Friends

Critical Reviews

“This tender text is accompanied by Natalia Kapatsoulia’s charming illustrations in a book that will touch children’s hearts. The writer describes friendship through words simple yet honest. He describes the moments of happiness and support, and even the moments of tension and trouble that inevitably exist in every relationship.”
Antonis Zarintas, ekpaideusi.blogspot.gr, 12/03/18

“If children’s literature is an in-depth familiarization with the amazing world of literature itself, with the play between narrative and characters, then my mind immediately goes to Makis Tsitas’s aesthetically beautiful book Friends (Psichogios Publications, 2006). This is an introduction to literature in which young readers can identify with the heroes and learn that the gift of friendship can bring you both power and confidence. It is a first taste of the warm, sweet, comforting, and velvety feeling of love that only friends can offer!”
Vouli Zogou, Eneken magazine, Issue 14, October-November-December 2009

“With tenderness and sensitivity, the author offers a small ode to friendship, to the happy and darker moments of it, along with a set of educational instructions as well. He penetrates into children’s souls and maps their uncharted waters through a language simple and spare; in a manner plain and easy to grasp that will definitely attract young readers and pass on to them messages that will prove useful later in life.”
Nikos Deligiannis, Iamvos magazine, Issue 14, Winter 2007

“In his own disarming manner, in a simple and understandable way, the author makes the case for friendship through his tender story, while offering a lesson to us adults too. The lesson for us -- in our effort to explain and provide all the answers to the many ‘whys’ our children pose and sometimes oblivious to simple everyday words and situations -- think we are answering them well when, in fact, many, many times we actually frustrate them even more.”
Eleni Argyriou, Kyriakatikos Rizospastis newspaper, 21/01/2007

“This is a tender book about the great gift of friendship by Makis Tsitas, who knows how to speak to children’s hearts.”
Erika Athanasiou, Kifisia newspaper, 21/12/06

“Makis Tsitas composes an ode to friendship for our young friends […] This is a tender and neat book packed with both humor and clarity, qualities that provide solid foundations for one to build a truly happy life.”
Eleni Gkika, Ethnos newspaper, 19/11/06

“In this book, the reader may easily discern the well-known components of Tsitas’s writing: humor, originality, simple and easy-to-grasp language, spare and economical prose, a fresh perspective, and topics that are drawn from the everyday lives of children.”
Kostas G. Papapanagiotou, Eleftheri Ora newspaper