Friendship in Picture Books

You Will Be My Friend by Peter Brown

• Pub Date: 2011  
• A very determined bear tries everything to make a friend while not noticing the animal who wants to be her friend all along. 

Friends by Aiko Ikegami

• Pub Date: 2016
• See also: Moving/Being New
• A little girl doesn't speak the same language as her new classmates, but she finds a way to make friends anyway. 

Squish Rabbit by Katherine Battersby

• Pub Date: 2011  
• A lonely rabbit makes a friend. 

Neville by Norton Juster

• Pub Date: 2011
• See also: Moving/Being New  

Moo Hoo by Candace Ryan

• Pub Date: 2012  
• Can two friends include another playmate and still get along? 

Lily's Cat Mask by Julie Fortenberry

• Pub Date: 2017
• See also: Emotions 
• Lily is afraid to start school, but in the end she finds a friend.

Look Up! by Chin-ho Chŏng

• Pub Date: 2016 
• A child in a wheelchair tries to get people to look up at her window from the sidewalk and makes a friend that way. 

Elmore by Holly Hobbie

• Pub Date: 2018
• A porcupine is lonely. No one wants to be friends with him because he is prickly. 

 Bird Balloon Bear by Il Sung Na

• Pub Date: 2017
• A bird wants to make friends with a bear, but he is too late, or so he thinks. 

Shy by Deborah Freedman

• Pub Date: 2016
• Shy loves birds, but is too shy to say hello.