Wednesday, June 17, 2009

How To Lose All Your Friends

Author: Nancy Carlson

Type or emotional/crisis issue addressed: Friendship

Year of Publication: 1997

Publisher and Location: Puffin

ISBN#  978-0140558623

Target Age Level: Lower Elementary

# of Pages: 32


Quality of Illustrations: Colorful, but a little bit amateur


Brief Summary: This book contains ways to lose your friends, such as not sharing, not smiling, cutting in line, and tattling.

Personal Comments/Biases, and/or Things to Consider When Using This Book With Children: The reverse examples are a fun way to look at friendship and are common situations children experience.

Activity: As a class, write a book with the students’ own ideas about how to lose all their friends.  Each student can write an example and illustrate a page for the book.

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