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    Best Friends

    By Thomas Kinkade and Thomas Nelson

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    Travel inside the paintings of Thomas Kinkade in this delightful collection of eight heart-warming stories of friendship-some adaptations of beloved classics, some original stories of extraordinary lives. Any girl who has ever had a best friend will treasure the adaptations of favorite scenes from Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, Heidi and Little Women. They'll also be inspired by real-life heroines like Harriet Tubman, the former slave who forged a trail to freedom via the Underground Railroad-and Helen Keller, who shared an enduring friendship with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. The friends featured in this volume withstand conflict, separation and the challenges of growing up, emerging as strong models of dedication and devotion for today's young readers. Beautiful spot art and border design by Kevin Burke bring the stories to life and add a child-like touch to the book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateSep 15, 2002
    ISBN9781418559656
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    Thomas Kinkade

    As America’s most-collected living artist, Thomas Kinkade has become a kind of Norman Rockwell for the new millennium. Kinkade has parlayed his background as a California family man and devout Christian to preside over a growing art empire that includes everything from books and prints to Bible covers and furniture fabric. Virtually unknown until the late 1990s, the self-described "painter of light" has seen his artistic talent develop into a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, a thriving website, a string of walk-in galleries, and a strong presence on the QVC home-shopping network. (A USA Weekend report noted that the artist’s share in the company stock was worth up to $30 million.) Because editions of his prints sell in the millions, an "original Kinkade" is a virtually unattainable object. He is a best-selling author and has illustrated such books as A Child’s Christmas at St. Nicholas Circle by Douglas Kaine McKelvey

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      Best Friends - Thomas Kinkade

      Best Friends

      Best Friends

      A Collection of Classic Stories

      Featuring the Paintings

      of

      THOMAS KINKADE

      Vignettes and Border Art by Kevin Burke

      Stories and Adaptations by

      Jean C. Fischer

      Best_Friends_0005_001

      Paintings copyright © 2002 Thomas Kinkade, Media Arts Group, Inc., Morgan Hill, CA.

      Text copyright © 2002 by Tommy Nelson®, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Vignette and border art copyright © 2002 by Kevin Burke

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson ®,

      a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations used in this book are from the

      International Children’s Bible ®, New Century Version® (ICB), copyright © 1986, 1989, 1999

      by Tommy Nelson ® , a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

      The New King James Version (NKJV), copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982

      by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

      Best friends : a collection of classic stories / stories and adaptations by Jean C. Fischer ;

      featuring the paintings of Thomas Kinkade ; vignettes and border art by Kevin Burke.

      p. cm.

      Summary: A collection of stories that describe different kinds of friendship, taken

      from familiar novels and from the lives of such people as Harriet Tubman and Helen Keller.

      ISBN 1-4003-0032-0

      1. Friendship—Literary collections. [1. Friendship—Literary collections.] I. Kinkade, Thomas, 1958– ill. II. Fischer, Jean, 1952– III. Burke, Kevin, 1957– ill. IV. Title.

      PZ5 .F54 2002

      808.8'0353—dc21

      2002016622

      Printed in the United States of America

      02 03 04 05 06 SPL 5 4 3 2 1

      Table of Contents

      DIANA COMES FOR TEA

      Best Friends

      Adapted from L. M. Montgomery’s novel

      Anne of Green Gables

      THE RAILROAD TO FREEDOM

      New Friends

      Based on the life of Harriet Tubman

      THE SECRET GARDEN

      Unlikely Friends

      Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel

      The Secret Garden

      TEACHER

      Teachers As Friends

      Based on the lives of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

      HEIDI AND HER GRANDFATHER

      Grandparents As Friends

      Adapted from Johanna Spyri’s novel

      Heidi

      SACAGAWEA AND JUMPING FISH

      Forever Friends

      Based on the adventures of two Shoshoni girls

      A CHRISTMAS STORY

      Friends Helping Friends

      Adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s novel

      Little Women

      THE FLAGMAKERS

      Patriotic Friends

      Based on the true story of Caroline Pickersgill

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      Left: The Blessings of Autumn

      BEST FRIENDS

      Diana Comes for Tea

      ADAPTED FROM L. M. MONTGOMERY’S NOVEL Anne of Green Gables

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      Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds

      on the heel that has crushed it.

      —MARK TWAIN

      Anne Shirley was a thin, red-headed girl who liked to talk a lot. In the early 1900s, she lived on Prince Edward Island, off the East Coast of Canada. Anne didn’t have a mother or father; instead, she lived with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who were brother and sister. Since they were getting up in age, they had adopted Anne to help them on their family farm, called Green Gables.

      October was a beautiful month at Green Gables. The birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine, the maples behind the orchard were royal crim–son, and the cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green.

      Oh, Marilla, Anne exclaimed one Saturday morning as she came dancing in with her arms full of branches filled with gorgeous leaves. "I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them."

      Messy things, said Marilla. You clutter up your room with too much out-of-doors stuff, Anne. Bedrooms were made to sleep in.

      "You clutter up

      your room with

      too much out-of-

      doors stuff, Anne.

      Bedrooms were

      made to sleep in."

      Oh, and to dream in, too, Marilla! Anne said dramatically; Anne was always overly dra–matic. One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. I’m going to put these branches in the old blue jug and set them on my table.

      Mind you don’t drop leaves all over the stairs then, Marilla scolded, then added, "I’m going to a meeting of the Ladies Aid Society this afternoon, Anne, and I won’t likely be home before dark. You’ll have to get Matthew’s supper. He’ll be late today, since he’s hauling potatoes to the Lily Sands. You can ask Diana to come and spend the afternoon with you, if you’d like. The two of you can have tea."

      Oh, Marilla! Anne clasped her hands. "How perfectly lovely! You are able to imagine things after all or else you’d never have understood how I’ve longed for this very thing. It will seem so nice and grown-uppish. Can I use the nice rosebud-spray tea set?"

      No, indeed! You’ll put down the old brown one. You can open up the little yellow crock of cherry preserves, and you can cut some fruitcake and have some of the cookies. There’s a bottle half-full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night. It’s on the second shelf of the sitting-room closet. You and Diana can have it, if you like.

      Even though they

      were best friends,

      the girls shook

      hands as if they

      had never met.

      I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes and imagining. I’ll ask Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn’t, but of course I’ll ask her just as if I didn’t know. And then I’ll offer her another piece of fruitcake and another helping of preserves, and some cordial. Oh, Marilla, it’s a wonderful sensation just to think of it! May I go and invite her now?

      You may, answered Marilla.

      Anne fled down the hollow and up the spruce path to Orchard Slope, to ask Diana to tea. And just after Marilla left for the meeting of the Ladies Aid Society, Diana came over dressed in her second-best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea. At any other time, she would have run into the kitchen without knocking, but today she knocked primly at the front door. Anne, also dressed in her second-best dress, opened the door in a very grown-up fashion.

      Even though they were best friends, the girls shook hands as if they had never met. They continued this grown-up behavior until after Diana had taken off her hat and sat for ten minutes, in a ladylike fashion, in the Cuthberts’ sitting room.

      How is your mother? Anne asked politely, just as if she had not seen Mrs. Barry picking apples that morning in excellent health and spirits.

      "She is very well,

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