Celebrate International Friendship Day!
To celebrate International Friendship Day on the 30th July, we’ve picked out our best reads about kindness!
Welcome by Alison Green and Axel Scheffler
A joyful picture book about friendship and togetherness, from international bestselling illustrator, Axel Scheffler.
Would you like to come inside this book? You’re very welcome. In fact, everyone is welcome here, whether you’re big or small, flappy, or jumpy, noisy, or quiet. With its simple text and endearing animal characters, Welcome shows how everyone can be a good friend, and how we can all help others to feel welcome.
The Unicorn Who Came to School by Lucy Rowland and Mike Byrne
A sparkling picture book about one girl’s unforgettable first day of school with a UNICORN!
The first day of school can be worrying. But it’s hard to feel scared when a unicorn is your new classmate! And what do unicorns do for FUN? Start a conga dance through school? YES. Chomp up everyone’s food at lunchtime? OOPS . . . YES! Make everyone have the BEST first day ever? OBVIOUSLY!
The Girl at the Front of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf and Pippa Curnick
Told with heart and humour, this story of friendship and kindness provides an early conversation starter to the topic of refugees.
There’s a new girl in my class. She has eyes as wide and as golden as a tiger’s, skin as pale as a glass of milk, and hair as shiny as a mirror. The cleverest people I know say that the new girl is sad because she had to leave her home, her family, her school, her toys, her books and all her friends too. But I’ve got an idea! There is something I can do to make her feel better when she’s missing everything she’s left behind …
Beastie Bros: The Cabbage Juice Crime by David O’Connell
Dash is a little firefly. One of his wings is shorter than the other so he flies more slowly than everyone else, but that doesn’t stop him getting where he wants to go. When he’s happy, his bottom lights up!
And he’s happiest when he’s eating custard and hanging out with his adoptive brother, Dribble the snail. Dribble is never in a hurry. He likes to invent things – and eat cabbage. He keeps all kinds of useful objects hidden inside his shell. They help to keep him out of trouble, which is never far away…
The Fart that Saved the Universe by Stephen Mangan and Anita Mangan
When Saskia is captured by aliens who plan to turn her into a human fart-machine, Perks, Jezza and Leslie blast off on a mission to bring her back down to Earth. Things get even more complicated when they discover the spaceship holds some top-secret cargo… a gadget that the most dangerous, double-crossing villains in the galaxy are in hot pursuit of…
It’s truly an OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD adventure for our heroes. But when the mysterious gadget falls into the wrong hands, the kids must be the heroes the universe needs… and could the day be saved by one teeny, tiny FART?
The Lottie Brooks Series by Katie Kirby
Lottie Brooks continues to navigate the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny illustrated series for a 9–12 audience, filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and plenty of lols.
Lottie Brooks is 11 3/4 and her life is ALREADY officially over. Not only is she about to start secondary school without any friends or glamorous swooshy hair, but she’s just discovered she’s too flat-chested to even wear A BRA! Lottie navigates the perils of growing up in this fantastically funny new illustrated series for pre-teens filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and, of course, KitKat Chunkys.
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