Yo! Yes?(Review)

Yo! Yes? videocassette. color. 5 min. (closed captioned), with tchr's. guide. Weston Woods/Scholastic. 2000. ISBN 0-78820-757-1. $60; also avail, cassette w/paperback book, $12.95.

PreS-Gr 5--This Caldecott Honor boook written and illustrated by Chris Raschka (Orchard, 1993) takes on the lively and rhythmic dribble of a basketball as an Afro-American boy saunters along the street. A white boy approaches and they exchange greetings from "Yo! Yes?" and "Hey, Who?" to "What's up?" and "Not much!" The white boy then confesses, "No fun! No friends!" With a toss of the basketball, friendship happens and they fall into sync. Body language, facial expression, and tone of …