![]() ![]() “Shannon really digs deep into her childhood trauma,” Hsu said, “and she’s not shy about being raw and honest with her emotions, so each book is hard for her.” Although Hale was reluctant at first, she did decide to do a sequel. ![]() Neither Hale nor Hsu initially planned for a trilogy, but as they worked on Real Friends, Hale kept bringing up other incidents from her life. LeUyen Pham is the artist for all three books, and PW is exclusively revealing the cover of Friends Forever here for the first time. She acquired the book for First Second, Roaring Brook’s graphic novel imprint, and both Real Friends, published in 2017, and its sequel, Best Friends, published in 2019, went on to become bestsellers.įirst Second will publish the third book in the trilogy, Friends Forever, in August 2021 with an announced first printing of one million copies. ![]() That was shortly after Hsu had come to Roaring Brook Press as a senior editor, in 2014 (she was recently promoted to editorial director). Within those 25 pages all those feelings from my childhood came back, and I thought, ‘There is something so special here.’ ” I was feeling all those insecurities I had when I was younger. When Connie Hsu read the first few pages of Shannon Hale’s graphic memoir Real Friends, she said, “I felt seen. ![]()
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