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Helping Kids Relate: Friendship
Stories that help young children understand how friendship works.
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Cover Art: I'm Not Smallcomb, Pam
I'm Not
A young girl discovers that best friends can enjoy and do well at different things as long as they are good at being friends. 2011
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Being Friends Beaumont, Karen.
Being Friends
Two very different girls find that the joy of being friends enables them to share their various likes and dislikes.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: The Berenstain Bears Gossip Gang Berenstain, Jan
The Berenstain Bears Gossip Gang
Sister Bear and her best friends like to share gossip about the other cubs at school, but the fun is gone when Sister overhears them say something untrue about her.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Martha Doesn't Share! Berger, Samantha
Martha Doesn't Share!
Martha the otter learns there are unpleasant consequences for refusing to share any of her things.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: How to be a Friend : a Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them Brown, Laurene Krasny.
How to be a Friend : a Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them
Dinosaur characters illustrate the value of friends, how to make friends, and how to be and not be a good friend, and how to enjoy being by yourself.
Easy Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: My Best Best Friend Child, Lauren
My Best Best Friend
Lola and Lotta are best friends who do everything together but when Evie, a new girl, joins the class, suddenly it's Evie whom Lotta does everything with, and Lola fears she has lost her best friend forever.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: You Can be My Friend Child, Lauren.
You Can be My Friend
Charlie's sister is going to play with Marv's little brother Morten when he visits. But Morten is a very quiet child who doesn't respond to Lola at first, making her think Morten doesn't like her. Will Lola and Morten ever be friends?
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: The Friendship Wish Kleven, Elisa.
The Friendship Wish
Foley the shy pup has trouble making friends when he moves to a new home. After Foley tells his neighbors about the angel who visited him in a dream, they all begin to share their talents in hopes the angel will return - and find out that making friends isn't really so hard.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Frog and Toad are Friends. Lobel, Arnold
Frog and Toad are Friends.
Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends - Frog and Toad.
Easy Reader
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  Cover Art: The Pink Party Macdonald, Maryann.
The Pink Party
Rose and Valentina's friendship is jeopardized by a competition over who can have the most pink things.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Boss of the World Manushkin, Fran
Boss of the World
When Katie Woo and her friends go to the beach, Katie is so rude and bossy that her friends do not want to play with her.
Easy Reader
  Cover Art: Yes We Can! McBratney, Sam.
Yes We Can!
Little Roo and his friends usually have a great time playing together, but one day they keep making fun of each other. When everyone is left in bad moods, Little Roo's mother comes up with an idea that might help them stay friends.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Waddles McPhail, David
Waddles
Waddles, a very plump and furry raccoon, helps his best friend Emily, a duck, hatch and raise her ducklings, and discovers what makes him truly happy.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Freckleface Strawberry : Best Friends Forever Moore, Julianne.
Freckleface Strawberry : Best Friends Forever
Freckleface Strawberry and Windy Pants Patrick are best friends because they have so much in common, but when the boys convince Windy Pants that he should play with them at recess, and the girls convince Freckleface Strawberry to play with them, the friends see that they are very different, too.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: The Jellybeans and the Big Camp Kickoff Numeroff, Laura
The Jellybeans and the Big Camp Kickoff
When four friends with different talents and abilities go to summer camp together, they use their strengths to make camp fun for all.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Fox Makes Friends Relf, Adam.
Fox Makes Friends
When Fox wants someone to play with, he takes his Mom's advice and sets off to make a friend. What happens along the way surprises him! Fox is about to make the best friends he could ever hope for--but not in the way he imagined.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Ribbit Rabbit Ryan, Candace
Ribbit Rabbit
Frog and Bunny are the best of friends, even though sometimes they get into fights.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Oliver Sif, Birgitta
Oliver
Oliver is different - he enjoys his solitude. He likes playing with his friends, who are puppets, stuffed animals, and other toys. But maybe toys don't always give a boy everything he needs. Will Oliver discover a way to be, well, different? When his tennis ball rolls across the lawn into the yard of the girl next door, he just might be surprised.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: I'm Not Smallcomb, Pam
I'm Not
A young girl discovers that best friends can enjoy and do well at different things as long as they are good at being friends.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Poindexter Makes a Friend Twohy, Mike
Poindexter Makes a Friend
Poindexter is a very shy pig who, while helping out at the library, meets a turtle who is also shy, and together they read a book about making a friend in four easy steps.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Should I Share My Ice Cream? Willems, Mo
Should I Share My Ice Cream?
Gerald the elephant has a hard time deciding if he should share with his friend Piggy, until she shows him what friendship is all about.
Easy Reader
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