How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy L. Carlson Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Offers advice on the kinds of things to do if you don't want to have any friends.

Flannel Board

	May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice De Regniers Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

Song

Ten Good Friends

[Artfelt has a Ten Little Children felt puppet set.]

	Hondo and Fabian by Peter McCarty Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Hondo the dog gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian the cat spends the day at home.

Song

	My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: 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.

	Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: This classic tale of friendship tracks a small gray mouse’s search for the perfect pal. He asks various animals the same question: ‘Do you want to be my friend?’ But it’s not until he meets another mouse that he is answered with a heartwarming ‘Yes!’

Films

	A Weekend With Wendell by Kevin Henkes Age Level: PreK-2
Synopsis: Sophie does not enjoy energetic, assertive Wendell's weekend visit until the very end, when she learns to assert herself and finds out Wendell can be fun to play with after all.

	Yo? Yes! by Chris Raschka Age Level: PreK-2
Synopsis: Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

	Will I Have a Friend? by Age Level: PreK-2
Synopsis: Jim's anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.

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More Books to Read On Your Own

And To Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends
by Mary Ann Hoberman
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: A brother and sister learn that friendship is better than fighting and they soon spread their message all over the world.

Best Friends
by Steven Kellogg
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time.

Best of Friends
by Pirkko Vainio
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Friends can come in all shapes and sizes, as Pirkko Vainio shows in this story about two disparate but devoted friends. Hare is little. Bear is big. Hare likes carrots. Bear prefers fish. Despite their differences, they are friends. They help one another. They laugh together and play together and share special moments together. They are friends-Little Hare and Big Bear.

A Boy, a Dog, a Frog and a Friend
by Mercer Mayer
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: First came a boy and his dog. Then they found a frog. Can a new turtle be a good friend too?

Field Day Friday
by Judith Caseley
Age Level: Kindergarten and up
Synopsis: On field day, Mickey is upset when he loses a race to his best friend Longjohn.

Friends
by Helme Heine
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Charlie Rooster, Johnny Mouse, and Percy the pig are the best of friends. They do everything together. They ride their bike together, play games together, and even do their chores together. Because that's what good friends do. When night falls, though, and it's time to go to bed, they learn that sometimes friends have to be apart. But that's okay, because true friends always find each other, even if it's just in their dreams.
Note: Artfelt has a Friends felt puppet set.

George and Martha
by James Marshall
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses.

Jamaica and Brianna
by Juanita Havill
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: It's wintertime again, and Jamaica has to wear her brother Ossie's hand-me-down boots. She finds herself envious of her friend Brianna's pink boots with the fuzzy cuffs, and Brianna teases her about her ugly, old "boy" boots. But one word brings reconciliation for the two friends.

Making Friends
by Fred Rogers
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Mr. Rogers discusses the nuances of friendship.

My Best Friend Moved Away
by Nancy L. Carlson
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: After her best friend moves away, a little girl misses the special times they had together.

My Friend Bear
by Jez Alborough
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Eddie and his teddy bear meet a very big bear in the woods, and Eddie and the big bear become good friends.

One of Each
by Mary Ann Hoberman
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Oliver Tolliver, who lives alone in his little house with just one of everything, discovers that it is more fun to have two of everything and share with a friend.

Wanted: Best Friend
by A.M. Monson
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Cat advertises for a new playmate when his best friend Mouse refuses to play checkers.

A Weekend with Wendell
by Kevin Henkes
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Sophie does not enjoy energetic, assertive Wendell's weekend visit until the very end, when she learns to assert herself and finds out Wendell can be fun to play with after all.

Who Will Be My Friends?
by Syd Hoff
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Freddy moves to a new community, where he makes many new friends.

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More Songs for at Home

A Smile

You cannot give a smile away
No matter what you do.
Every time you give me one
I'll give it back to you!

Oh Playmate, Come Out and Play With Me
(Version 2)

Say, say, oh playmate,
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more, 1-2-3-4

It was a rainy day,
She couldn't come out and play
With tearful eyes, she breathed a sigh
And I could hear her say:

Say, say, oh playmate
I cannot play with you
My dolly's got the flu
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

Ain't got no rainbow
Ain't got no cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends
Forever more, 1-2-3-4

Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff, the magic dragon live by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honah Lee.
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax
And other fancy stuff.

Oh... Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honah Lee.

Together they would travel
On a boat with billowed sail,
Jackie kept a lookout
Perched on Puff's gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes
Would bow where'er they came,
Pirate ships would low'r their flag
When Puff roared out his name.

Puff, the magic dragon live by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honah Lee.

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One gray night it happened,
Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon,
He ceased his fearless roar.

Puff, the magic dragon live by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honah Lee.

His head was bent in sorrow---
Green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play
Along the cherry lane
Without his lifelong friend
Puff could not be brave
So Puff that mighty dragon,
Sadly slipped into his cave.

Puff, the magic dragon live by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honah Lee.