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Best Friends cover art from Book Dash.

Best Friends

A Book Dash story by Julia Smuts Louw

  • 2025
  • 12 illustrated spreads
  • Editorial suggestion · unrated
  • Shared under CC BY 4.0
For the grown-up reading along

friendship and caring; mild worry when a friend is absent from school because she is unwell

Best Friends, in full

Best Friends — front cover page. Official Book Dash image with embedded title and story text.
Front cover
Best Friends — illustrated spread 1 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 1 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 2 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 2 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 3 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 3 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 4 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 4 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 5 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 5 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 6 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 6 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 7 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 7 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 8 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 8 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 9 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 9 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 10 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 10 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 11 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 11 of 12
Best Friends — illustrated spread 12 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 12 of 12
Best Friends — back cover page. Official Book Dash image with embedded publication and story text.
Back cover

Credits and license

Who made this book

Writer
Julia Smuts Louw
Illustrator
Gerhard van Wyk
Designer
Penny Waterkeyn
Editor
Katie Huston
Isbn
978-0-948602-66-5

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Screen-reading edition prepared by StoryBeam Kids. Official English gallery JPEGs were resized to a maximum width of 1,280 pixels, converted to WebP, and stripped of metadata. Originally published by Book Dash under CC BY 4.0 and created by Julia Smuts Louw, Gerhard van Wyk, Penny Waterkeyn, and Katie Huston. The original can be read free at bookdash.org.

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