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