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
Key Selling Points
• A comforting guide featuring helpful tips on friendship, with sample scenarios to help show readers that having good friends means being a good friend yourself.
• In the aftermath of pandemic lockdowns, and with kids' increasing reliance on technology, kids' social skills could use a boost. This book makes the perfect resource for parents, caregivers and teachers looking for structure on how to discuss friendship, manners and values.
• Features an author's note with a selection of friendship-building activities for the classroom and at home.
• Andrea Armstrong's charming, warm and sweet illustrations encourage young readers to engage with the book.
• Dr. Jillian Roberts is a well-respected child psychologist, author, professor and mother, as well as a regular contributor to Today's Parent, Global News and the CBC, whose advice is based on research and a wealth of experience.
In this sweet picture book, respected child psychologist Jillian Roberts outlines the key building blocks of being a good friend. From welcoming newcomers to being patient and kind, this book will help set up readers for a lifetime of wonderful friendships.
Dr. Jillian Roberts is a child psychologist, author, professor at the University of Victoria and mother of three children. Considered a go-to child psychology expert for journalists, Dr. Roberts is a contributor to the Globe and Mail, Global News and CBC. She is the author of two bestselling and award-winning series of children's books: Just Enough and The World Around Us. Dr. Roberts' most recent titles, Calm and My Promise, are for the very youngest of readers and focus on building child resilience. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Andrea Armstrong is a visual artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She spends her days (and often nights) illustrating, painting and designing. With roots in rural Indonesia, small-town Manitoba and metropolitan Singapore, she finds inspiration in the gathered impressions of her childhood. She holds a bachelor's degree in visual communications from Capilano University.
To make good friends, you have to be a good friend.
Learn how to be the best friend you can be by including others, being kind, taking turns and saying sorry when you make a mistake. To make good friends, you have to be a good friend.
