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How to Lose All Your Friends (Picture Puffins) Paperback – Picture Book, April 1, 1997
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- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level2 - Kindergarten
- Lexile measure480L
- Dimensions7.13 x 0.09 x 8.88 inches
- PublisherPuffin Books
- Publication dateApril 1, 1997
- ISBN-100140558624
- ISBN-13978-0140558623
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- Publisher : Puffin Books; Reprint edition (April 1, 1997)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0140558624
- ISBN-13 : 978-0140558623
- Reading age : 4 - 7 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 480L
- Grade level : 2 - Kindergarten
- Item Weight : 3.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 7.13 x 0.09 x 8.88 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #100,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #289 in Children's Manners Books
- #2,273 in Children's Humor
- #2,544 in Children's Friendship Books
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This year illustrator and author Nancy Carlson published her 44th children's book. Her specialty is teaching kids to feel good about themselves and others.Kids, parents, teachers and even book critics think she does a great job. That's because she is never out of touch with the kid spirit inside herself. Her brightly colored pencil drawings perfectly capture the happy-go-lucky characters that fill her clever and funny books. There is a life lesson to be learned from each story.Nancy decided at age five to be an artist. As a child, Nancy would sit on her bed and draw for hours. "I began creating characters and telling stories through my drawings," Nancy said. "I always had the need to communicate something through my art." Her early love of comic books influenced her style of drawing and use of color.A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art, Nancy has kept alive a youthful zest for life. Readers and book reviewers alike are charmed by her jazzy yet childlike drawings done with bright colored pencils. In all 42 books and four stage plays, she uses well-placed humor in words and pictures to tickle the funny bone of children and their parents.Humorous childhood experiences from her own life growing up in Minneapolis and from the escapades of her three children provide themes for stories. Most of her books feature animal characters that show the funny side of people. Nancy's two dogs, cat and a guinea pig are a source of inspiration.Nancy Carson lives in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. She and her husband, Barry McCool, have three children, two dogs, and a cat. Nancy loves nature and spends as much time outdoors as possible, running, biking and birdwatching. Besides writing and illustrating children's books, she designs posters, t-shirts, caps, greeting cards and other specialty items, which are marketed across the country through McCool Unlimited, Inc. and available though Nancy's on-line catalogue.Readers say they recognize themselves and their friends in the characters who triumph over everyday situations.Each story helps young readers deal with life's little problems, while teaching the basic values of honesty, determination and self-confidence.
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I personally would NOT buy this book for a child who is behaving well
and does not need to get "ideas" how to be bad. A good kid who wants
to know how to make friends and keep them if he she is a bit alienated
does not need this book either. They need more guidance how to make friends.
This book is exactly what the book implies.
It is perfect for a child who has a behavioral issues that cost him
or her friends and if he she keeps repeating the behavior that is
destructive to her his friendships and makes her him upset and suffering
from lack of friends.
It shows brilliantly and in very simple way what behavior are NOT going
to make him friend but too cause loosing them.
VERY simple and VERY straight forward and VERY visually to the point.
You got a picture per page and one sentence underneath. All is needed
to make a child and adult to laugh and reflect.
It is really all your child need to realize how ugly the bheaviour
looks on the picture on another kid.
The book is absolutely brilliant.
I got one for my child who was victim of a friend who would always
take toys from him, always whine to get his way with my child,
always bully him if the winning would not work, never shared and
stuff like that. My child laughed hard and saw that other friends
in that paper child and had easier time to deal with actual child.
It would be also perfect if your child was that problem child
and to help him her visualize what is not funny and how ugly it
looks from the outside.
since book is written in such a simple way, a child does not
need any help to "get it" it is just self explanatory.
I would not introduce this book personally to a child younger
then probably 5. There is some reasoning required to get it
in the right way. I would think that a child under 5 could
get it in opposite way or might acquire some bad behaviors.
Child 5 6 and 7 could benefit from it immensely.
My daughter asked me to reread this book over and over, laughing away. I am not an actress by any stretch but I managed to act out some of the scenes which she found hysterical and I think really got the point across.
For me this book helped teach a difficult lesson in a fun and engaging way. I'm grateful to the author for publishing this book and would highly recommend it.
This book was perfect for my 8 year old Aspie. How many social skills books have he and I read together talking about social rules about how to make friends? We review them over and over, looking at pictures and reviewing all the steps of what to do. Every time I get one out to review with him, I get the same response -- "boring!".
"How to Lose All Your Friends" was perfect for him! He has a great sense of humour and thought the whole concept was extremely funny. Demonstrating what to do by talking about the negative, what not to do, with nice illustrations, is extremely funny and attention-getting. It also reads more like a story book than a text book. As soon as I got it, my Aspie picked it up and read it. He liked it so much, he even did his monthly book review on it. Most 7-8 year olds could read this on their own. Awesome for those who could use a little brushing up on their social skills.












