Children's Books on Friendship - PDF

							                    Children’s Books on Friendship

All Kinds of Friends, Even Green! by Ellen    Hunter’s Best Friend at School, by Laura     Sharing: How Kindness Grows, by Fran
    B. Senisi                                    Malone Elliot, illus. by Lynn Munsinger      Shaw
And Here’s to You, by David Elliott, illus.   I Can Share, by Karen Katz                   Simon and Molly plus Hester, by Lisa
   by Randy Cecil                             I’m Sorry, by Sam McBratney, illus. by          Jahn-Clough
Arthur’s Friendship Treasury, by Marc            Jennifer Eachus                           Sometimes I Share, by Carol Nicklaus
   Brown                                      It’s Okay to Be Different, by Todd Parr      Sunshine and Storm, by Elisabeth Jones
Bear Feels Scared, by Karma Wilson, il-       Jamberry, by Bruce Degen                        and James Coplestone
   lus. by Jane Chapman                       Join in and Play, by Cheri Meiners           Talk and Work It Out, by Cheri Meiners,
Best Friend on Wheels, by Debra Shirley,      Let’s Talk about It: Extraordinary              illus. by Meredith Johnson
   illus. by Judy Stead                           Friends, by Fred Rogers, photos by Jim   That’s What a Friend Is, by P.K. Hallinan
Best Friends, by Charlotte Labaronne              Judkis                                   A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker, illus.
The Best Friends Book, by Todd Parr           The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawber-        by Kady MacDonald Denton
Big Al, by Andrew Clements, illus. by            ry, and the Big Hungry Bear, by Don       We Are Best Friends, by Aliki
   Yoshi                                         and Audry Wood
Big Dog . . . Little Dog, by P.D. Eastman,    Making Friends, by Fred Rogers
   available in Spanish                       Making Friends, by Janine Amos, illus.
Can You Be a Friend? by Nita Everly             by Annabel Spenceley
Can You Talk to Your Friends? by Nita         Margaret and Margarita, by Lynn Reiser,
   Everly                                       bilingual (English and Spanish)
Chester’s Way, by Kevin Henkes                Matthew and Tilly, by Rebecca C. Jones,
Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes                  illus. by Beth Peck
Dog and Bear: Two’s Company, by Laura         Mine! A Backpack Baby Story, by Miriam
   Vaccaro Seeger                                Cohen
Fluffy and Baron, by Laura Rankin             Mine! Mine! Mine! by Shelly Becker, illus.
Fox Makes Friends, by Adam Relf, avail-          by Hideko Takahashi
   able in Spanish                            My Best Friend, by Pat Hutchins
Franklin’s Friendship Treasury, by Pau-       My Friend and I, by Lisa Jahn–Clough
   lette Bourgeois, illus. by Brenda Clark    My Friend Bear, by Jez Alborough
Franklin’s New Friend, by Paulette Bour-      My Friend Is Sad, by Mo Willems
   geois, illus. by Brenda Clark              My Friend, the Starfinder, by George Ella
Friendships in Nature, by James Gary             Lyon, illus. by Stephen Gammell
    Hines, photos by Jan Martin McGuire       One Lonely Sea Horse, by Saxton Frey-
Gigi and Lulu’s Gigantic Fight, by               mann and Joost Elffers
   Pamela Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole       Owen & Mzee: Best Friends and Owen
Heartprints, by P.K. Hallinan                   & Mzee: Language of Friendship, by
Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores,           Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and
   by James Howe, illus. by Amy Walrod          Dr. Paula Kahumbu
How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their              Peanut, by Linas Alsenas
  Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark             Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, by
  Teague                                         Aaron Blabey
How to Be a Friend, by Laurie Krasny          The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister           This list is excerpted and adapted, with per-
  Brown and Marc Brown                                                                      mission, from the Web site of the Center on
                                              A Rainbow of Friends, by P.K. Hallinan        the Social and Emotional Foundations for
How to Lose All Your Friends, by Nancy        The Selfish Crocodile, by Faustin Charles     Early Learning (CSEFEL). For more informa-
  Carlson                                                                                   tion, go to www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel.
                                                 and Michael Terry


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