Sharing: How Kindness Grows, by Fran. Shaw ... That's What a Friend Is, by P.K.
Hallinan. A Visitor for Bear, ... How to Lose All Your Friends, by Nancy. Carlson.
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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