Friendship Books

Our first "friendship" lesson began with noticing different things students have already done to help a classmate: sharing jobs (door holders, messengers), finding a partner's book page if they were out of the room, sharing a snack, reminding nicely about what's happening next or where to put something.

Next, each of us told the class other things they could do to help a friend.  Then we made drawings and Mrs. M. wrote what we said  was happening in our pictures.   Take a look at some of our drawings on this page:

My friend fell on the woodchips and I told the teacher
and I brought her to the nurse. ~Amy

She dropped her crayons and I'm helping her pick them up.
~ Dominique

Someone's hand got stuck in the door
and I opened the door to get it out. ~ Thomas

Friendship Books

**  Thank you mailring friends: Leanne, Janet, Robin, Mary, Tracy, Nancy, Malinda, and Kathy for sharing some of your favorite titles/authors.

A Boy,A Dog,A Frog and A Friend  by Mercer Mayer
A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You by Joan Alsh Anglund
A Hundred Hugs  by Joy Cowley
A Playhouse for Monster by Virginia Mueller
A Secret Friend  by Marilyn Sachs
A Special Trade by Sally Wittman
A Very Special Critter by Mercer Mayer
Alexander and the Windup Mouse by Leo Lionni
At the Root of It All by Savannah Walker
Backyard Tent by Kira Daniel
Berenstain Bears and the In-Crowd  by J & S Berenstain
Berenstain Bears Trouble With Friends by J & S Berenstain
Berenstain Bears, No Girls Allowed by J & S Berenstain
Best Enemies, Again by  Walter Lorraine
Best Friends  by Steven Kellogg
Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Patterson
Busybody Nora by Johanna Hurwitz
Best Friends Sleep Over by Jacqueline Rogers

Best Friends for Frances by Russell Hoban
Bill Cosby books
Chester's Way by Kevin Henkes
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Culpepper Adventure Series by Gary Paulsen
Dreadful Dragon by Joan Goodman
Elephants Never Forget by Jeannette Sanderson
Everette Anderson's Friend by Lucille Clifton
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
Days With Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
"Deaf Donald", A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Franklin's New Friend by Paulette Bourgeois
Franklin is Bossy by Paulette Bourgeois
Friends by Rosa Guy
Friends by Helme Heine
George and Martha by James Marshall
Golden Bear by Ruth Young
Happy Birthday by Rev. W. Thomas Awdry
Happy Birthday, Ronald by Patricia Morgan Giff
Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant
I Dance in My Red Pajamas by Edith Macher Hurd
I Wish I Were a Butterfly by James Howe
If I Were In Charge of the World by Judith Viorst
It's Mine by Leo Lionni
Jamaica and Brianna by Juanita Havill
Jessica by Kevin Henkes
Just Kermit and Me by Ellen Weiss
Just My Friend and Me by Mercer Mayer
Let's Be Enemies by Janice Audry
Lion King, Friends in Need by John Kurtz
Little Critter's Staying Overnight by Mercer Mayer
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lizzie and Harold by Elizabeth Winthrop
Matthew and Tilly by Rebecca C. Jones
Mrs. Gigglebelly Is Coming For Tea by Donna Guthrie
Miss Hickory by Carolyn S. Baily
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
My Friend Jacob by Lucille Clifton
My Friends by Taro Gomi
Nettie Jo's Friends by Margaret Wild
Nick Joins In by Joe Lasker
Peach and Blue by Sarah Kilbourne
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgreen
Play it Again Rosie by Ruth Brooks
Racing for the Stars by Maggie Dana
Rainy Day Kate by Lenore Blegvad
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Rhubarb by Stephen Cosgrove
Rolling Harvey Down the Hill by Jack Prelutsky
Rosie and Michael by Judith Viorst
Ruby the Copy Cat by Peggy Rathmann
Sam, Bangs , and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Sneetches by Dr. Suess
Sweet Hearts For Dolly by  Ruth Brooks
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
That's What Friends Are For by Florence Heide
The Charm by Jeanette Sanderson
The Fourth-Grade Four by Marilyn Levinson
The Friendly Fox by Jenny Koralek
The Ghost in the Closet by Rick Detorie
The Good Friends Club by Bob Barner
The Hating Book by Charlotte Zolotow
The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll by Ardizzone
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Popcorn Dragon by Jane Thayer
The Red - Headed Gooseberry Ghost by Rick Detorie
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Tale of the Vanishing Rainbow by Siegfried Rupprecht
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
The Wall by William Stine
The Lion and The Mouse by Aesop
The Most Wonderful Doll in the World by Phyllis McGinley
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare
The Whipping Boy by Peter Sis
Toad For Tuesday by Russell Erickson
Through Grandpa's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
Tree House Fun by R. Greydanus
Two Together by Chyng-Feng Sun
Together by George Ella Lyon
Toot and Puddle by Holly Hobbie
We Are Best of Friends by Aliki
What Do You Say, Dear? by Sesyle Joslon
What's the Matter with Herbie Jones by Suzy Kline
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day by A.A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too by A. A. Milne
Words of Stone by Kevin Henkes
Yo Yes! by Christopher Raschka
4 Weeks in the Life of Best Friends by Beatrice Schenk Regniers