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|title=Ping and Pong are Best Friends (mostly)

|author=Tim Hopgood

|publisher=Simon & Schuster Childrens Books

|date=March 2013

|website=http://www.timhopgood.com/

|summary=A simple but beautiful story about friendship, with plenty of humour, and a moral to the story.

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Ping and Pong are best mates, but Ping feels that he is always in Pong's shadow. Anything Ping can do, Pong can do better. Ping is learning to skate, taking baby steps on the ice while Pong twirls and zooms around him. Ping paints a colourful canvas with bright coloured splodges while Pong paints a lovely vase with flowers. No matter what he does, Pong can do it so much better that poor Ping gives up and decides to do nothing at all. But perhaps there is something that Ping can do better than anyone else, and that it just to be a friend. This is a fun book to read that had my four year old laughing out loud, but there is a lot more to this book than humour; it has a lovely heart warming message about friendship as well.