Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book

by Gary Vaynerchuk

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Two picture books in one! Read it from either side for a different perspective of the same story. It's the perfect little reminder to see both sides.

New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk gives kids a jump-start on getting ahead in Meet Me in the Middle, an all-original picture book featuring his beloved VeeFriends characters!

With its unique two-in-one flip-book format, Meet Me in the Middle encourages young readers to see how different the world looks from another point of view. Start the book from the front and readers will learn about Eager Eagle’s day. Flip it over and readers will see the same story from Patient Pig’s perspective. It’s a fun story about how real success comes from seeing how the other side does it.

Inspired by the lessons in the million-copy bestselling book Twelve and a Half, Meet Me in the Middle gives parents and educators a way to talk to kids about empathy, problem solving, and compromise—the essential keys to success, at any age!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063320291
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/16/2024
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	97,400
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and serves as the chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia, and the creator and CEO of VeeFriends. Gary is considered one of the leading global minds on what’s next in culture, relevance, and the internet. Known as “GaryVee,” he is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business. He is a New York Times bestselling author, a sought-after public speaker, and a prolific investor in companies like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Snapchat, Coinbase, and Uber. Gary serves on the board of Bojangles Restaurants, Global Citizen Forum, MikMak, and Pencils of Promise. He is also a longtime Well member of charity: water.

Editorial Reviews

2024-04-05
Patient Pig and Eager Eagle help each other up their games.

Author/entrepreneur Vaynerchuk casts animal VeeFriends from his line of NFT trading cards and reworks values explored in his business self-help guide Twelve and a Half (2021) for this flip book. Starting from one end of the book, readers meet Patient Pig, who eats breakfast (“the most important meal of the day,” she says) and so arrives at the playground after the big basketball game has started. Still, though she helps her team win by passing whenever anyone’s open, she never scores; later she joins Eager Eagle for some practice at taking the ball to the net. Readers can then begin the book from the other end. Eager Eagle skips breakfast to arrive first (and soon runs out of energy as the game goes on), but afterward he commends Patient Pig for her style of play and coaches her; meanwhile, she teaches him not to force his shots. “We’re a great team…when we meet in the middle,” they chorus, lounging head to head on the central spread. The dialogue is stilted (“I feel a lot better now! Your plans made this possible.” “Your excitement made me want to work harder”), while Lambe’s stubby-limbed, googly-eyed cartoon animals display a limited range of stylized expressions and postures. Young readers will certainly come away feeling instructed, though less than engaged.

Trite coaching with little net gain. (Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews