Gary Strong Curriculum Center - College of Education, Health and Human Sciences: Friendship

In this wordless book with interactive flaps, a friendship develops between a girl named Flora and a graceful flamingo, as they learn to dance together.

Mouse hears a rumor that snakes do not like mice and while trying to avoid his former friend, Snake, he falls into a hole from which neither Hedgehog, Squirrel, nor Rabbit can help him out.

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

Don't you need a new pair of socks? -- P.S. I'll be back soon -- Give a fish a home.
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

A colorful picture book offers readers a collection of three Arthur the Aardvark tales, including Arthur's Pet Business, Arthur's New Puppy, and Arthur's First Sleepover.

When a new bear comes to school, all the other animals are afraid of him until he saves them from the Rat Pack bullies.

When a studious polar bear meets an inquisitive goose, they learn to be friends.

Because Clifford, the big red dog, imitates everything the boy does, he quickly makes a friend.

A young girl makes friends with the new boy next door, and when they have a fight, she discovers that she misses him.

Despite differences in abilities, two little girls appreciate each other and are "best friends."

Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends - Frog and Toad.

Gabí is delighted when a girl her age moves into her northern California neighborhood, but Lizzie's "big bully brothers" and secretiveness threaten their new friendship.

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree because he's afraid of the unknown, finds someone perfectly safe to make friends with. Join him on his journey to friendship.

"Ruby, a very small bird in a very big world, is looking for a friend, so she introduces herself ..."--

Two brief stories demonstrate how to make new friends at the park and during indoor activities.

Jack Baker, away from Kansas attending a boys' boarding school in Maine, sets out on the Appalachian Trail with his eccentric school friend Early Auden in search of a great black bear.

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder.

Lonely Lenny advertises for a friend, and then is surprised to find one right under his nose.

The Fieldmouse children find a way to make new friends when they move to a new house.

Offers advice on the kinds of things to do if you don't want to have any friends.

Three boys overcome prejudicial ideas about appearances and become friends.

Hedgehog, who hibernates through the winter, wants to know what winter feels like, so he asks his friend Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter to share in the spring.

A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.

When Sara Ann brings home three little kittens, Katie the dog's enthusiasm frightens the kittens away until she learns that a quiet patience is sometimes needed to begin a friendship.

Lars the polar bear teases his friend Hugo the hare for being afraid of everything, until the day they get lost in the snow.

Two dogs, Mousse and Nut, learn that even though they may like different things, they can still be best friends.

Giraffe and Bird spat, squabble, and get on each other's nerves. There's nothing the irrepressible Bird likes more than to have a laugh at the expense of his dignified friend, and one thirsty day at the water hole, he gets his chance. Giraffe's awkward attempt to reach the water without getting his hooves wet raises a laugh from all his friends, even bird. With giraffe's feelings hurt, bird learns a lesson about hurting feelings and friendship.

When Elephant accidentally breaks Piggie's new toy, they both experience intense feelings before coming to realize how important their friendship is.

Split pea soup -- The flying machine -- The tub -- The mirror -- The tooth.
Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

Two dogs, Mousse and Nut, learn that even though they may like different things, they can still be best friends.

Like all good friends, Matthew and Tilly have an occasional tiff, but their friendship prevails despite their differences.

Defines what friends are and describes activities people do with their friends.