Children's Nonfiction Friendship
The Friendship Guide
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2025
- Category
- Friendship, Manners & Etiquette, Values & Virtues
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781459839311
- Publish Date
- Feb 2025
- List Price
- $21.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459839335
- Publish Date
- Feb 2025
- List Price
- $27.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 3 to 5
- Grade: p to k
- Reading age: 3 to 5
Description
Friendship is important—and life would be so dull without it!
Friendships are essential for social-emotional learning and mental health, but sometimes children struggle with making and keeping friendships. In The Friendship Guide, child psychologist Jillian Roberts outlines central ideas on how to be the best friend you can be. Alongside each of the principles is a scenario showing how it relates to real life—at the playground, at the park, at school or on a playdate. For parents, guardians and kids themselves, it can be difficult to recognize what makes friendships work. With this book, readers will have a comforting and straightforward resource to help guide them toward a lifetime of beautiful friendships.
Praise for Jillian Roberts:
"This book handles a sensitive topic with kindness, compassion, and empathy...A good beginning look at how to broach a complicated topic that's filled with positivity and hope."—Booklist, for On the News
"Gentle but straightforward...[A] reassuring backdrop for the big questions being discussed." —Publishers Weekly, for What Happens When a Loved One Dies?
"A cheery and buoyant introduction to timely and imperative topics for young readers; especially useful in a guidance setting."—School Library Journal, for Under Our Clothes
About the authors
Andrea Armstrong is a visual artist who spends her days (and often nights) illustrating, painting and designing. With roots in rural Indonesia, small-town Manitoba and metropolitan Singapore, the gathered impressions of her childhood inspire her palette. Andrea holds a bachelor's degree in visual communications from Capilano University. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Editorial Reviews
“Rather than simply instructing kids, the book provides a series of brightly illustrated double-page spreads, each stating a basic rule of friendship, dramatizing a related situation involving friends, and offering tips on how to deal with it. This format offers an opportunity for kids and their parents to share their experiences. A useful guide with a practical approach.”
Booklist
“Roberts’ book offers a greatest hits of friendship advice…The situations are relatable, while the writing is direct, not overly pedantic, and suitably engaging for a young audience. Valuable guidance on becoming a better friend, with solid insights and concrete examples.”
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