Children’s Books About Making Friends

Little Owl doesn’t want to play with Small Squirrel. No, no, NO!
He wants to play with his bestest best toy, Hedge.

Besides, friends are no fun, right? Small Squirrel talks too much and eats all the cinnamon buns too.

But what if this new friendship involves adventures with bears and ghosts and all sorts of exciting things? It looks like Little Owl is in for the most fun day EVER!

There once was a boy and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole.

But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn’t what the penguin was looking for after all.

Meesha loves making things …
but there’s one thing she finds difficult to make – friends. She doesn’t know quite what to do, what to say or when to say it, and she struggles reading and responding to social cues. But one day she discovers that she has a special talent that will help her to navigate challenging social situations and help her to make friends.

A warm and affectionate look at the joys and difficulties of making and keeping friends, relating to others, and finding your place in the world. Wonderfully empowering and emotionally resonant, Tom Percival’s Big Bright Feelings series is the perfect springboard for conversations about mental and emotional health, positive self-image, building self-confidence and managing feelings. Every child’s bookshelf should contain his books.

What makes us a good friend? And what might make us a not-so good friend? What can friends do together? And how do we make friends?

Best-selling author Molly Potter presents practical advice on helping children understand how to make friends, what it means to be a true friend and how to cope with the tricky parts of friendship. Will You Be My Friend? is ideal for starting conversations about friendship and includes a guide for parents and careers about supporting a child if they are having friendship difficulties.

With fun and lively illustrations from Sarah Jennings, this book is both humorous and charming, and prompts children to discuss the idea of friendship with parents and peers. Learning to build and maintain friendships also helps children with important life skills such as sharing, negotiating, empathising and that all important apology when things go wrong.