How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them Book

(How-to book)

Brown, Laurie & Brown, Marc. How To Be a Friend (1998). This 30-page picture book teaches children how to be a friend. It includes ten chapters that talk about what friends are and who can be a friend. Some chapters talk about feelings and different ways to be a friend or how not to be a friend. An important topic of bosses and bullies is also talked about in this book. Real-life problems like divorce and self-esteem are also discussed in this book. Children will understand these important topics because it is written at their level and shows illustrations that match the context. The illustrations are kid friendly because the illustrator used dinosaurs as the characters in this book. There wasn't a story plot in this book but it was easy to follow because it was divided into chapters. By reading this book children will be introduced to possibly their first table of contents, chapter headings, and air bubbles. At the end of this book, there is a chapter about talking out an argument and it offers a set-by-set process on how to talk out an argument. This how-to book is a great tool for teachers, parents, or any adult to use for an introduction about friendship to children. Target audience: ages 6-8