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title: "Making Friends Is an Art!"
brand: "julia cookbridget barnes"
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# Making Friends Is an Art!

**Brand:** julia cookbridget barnes
**Price:** Rp2933700
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Making Friends Is an Art!

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great for friendship and self-esteem discussions
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2012*

I usually don't purchase new books without seeing reviews but I immediately bought this one and I wasn't disappointed.  Julia Cook's books have been useful. As an elementary school counselor I'm always searching for books on friendship.  There don't seem to be many out there on how to make friends and what to do if you have friendship problems.  Although I also recommend "How to be a friend" by Marc Brown and "My friends and me" by Pat Thomas.  I look for books that will appeal to 6-8 year olds.  I've already used this book with groups and it's worked out well.So for the plot:  The Brown colored pencil feels alone and left out.  A few of the other colored pencils tell him he needs to be a good friend to make friends.  Each of the colors has a specific positive quality.  Brown is a combination of all the other colors so he has those qualities within him.  He takes their advice and begins to recognize his own strengths.  He changes his ways and does things to try and help out the other pencils.  He feels better about himself and now has friends.The story did repeat some things to try and make the story hit home but I'm not sure it was necessary.  A couple of pages almost felt out of place and were a little too long. For instance, towards the end Brown listens to a presentation on how to take over the art supply market.  He was doing this to support his friend but I don't think the audience this is geared to would understand the situation, nor did it add to the story.Overall, the book has a good message that resonates with children. It is easy to use in discussion regarding friendship and self esteem and I would buy it again.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    More of a self esteem book than a making friends book
  

*by T***7 on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2013*

I bought this for my 5 year old. He has some issues with empathy and thinking about other people, so I'm concerned that he is going to have trouble making real friends in school.  He does NOT have any issues with self esteem, if anything he has the opposite problem.I thought this was a book about how to make friends. But really, it's a book on why friends are important and that you are special and deserve to have friends.  The book is very very wordy.  There are a couple of entire pages that could easily be removed from the book without affecting the storyline. It's just too long for young children.Also, there's no real practical information.  The first half of the book covers how the brown crayon doesn't have any friends and basically hates himself. Then by talking to a bunch of other crayons, he discovers that he is worthwhile after all, and he starts to make friends.  But I didn't feel there were enough details in actually helping a young child make friends. One of the themes was "to make friends you need to be a good friend", which is awesome! but the examples and guidance were terrible.  There are extremely specific examples - like the brown crayon listens to another crayon's crazy business plans. My son is too young to understand that this is trying to say that you should think of others and listen, even if you aren't super-interested.  Honestly I would have been better off just making a list of friend-making skills and reading them to him and giving him some general examples.I actually felt that improving your self esteem was discussed more than making friends.  Accepting who you are and learning to like yourself were major themes.  If that's what you are looking for - I still can't hardily recommend this book because I feel it is too long unless your child is a bit older, in which case they might find the characters too childish.  3 stars is listed as "It's ok" and that's exactly how I would describe this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    It’s a good book...I think
  

*by P***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021*

I loved and still love this book. After reading it I wished that the author would have used a non skin color. I think some might take it as brown people have bad attitudes and are negative if they don’t allow themselves to look at it overall. I have shared the story with some classes in my internship and I didn’t have any negative responses. In hindsight, I still wish a different color could have been the main character.

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