Type of emotional/crisis issues addressed: MAKING FRIENDSAuthor/authors: Charlotte Middleton
Year of Publication: 2004
Book Title: Enrico Starts School
ISBN #: 0803730179; 9780803730175
Age Level: PreK; Lower Elementary
# of pages: 28
Quality of illustrations: Original, vibrant illustrations with funny captions placed aside to elaborate on the pictures.
Brief Summary: Enrico can do many things, he can ride his bike with no training wheels, he could make sandwiches, so now Enrico was ready to start his first day of school. Enrico goes to school without any idea of how to make friends. He tries to join in on games, share his lunch, make his own roller skates, but nothing works, until he decides to just “be himself.” Then he meets Pepe and they become best friends. All of this because he stops trying so hard and just tries to be himself.
Post reading activity: Give the kids free time in class to practice “being themselves,” have them choose to do anything that they want to do for 10 minutes and then bring them together again and discuss how they felt when they did what they wanted to do instead of what other people wanted to do. Teach the kids that part of making friends is having fun doing what you like to do and finding people that like to do those things too!
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