Our Friendship Rules

The perfect book for kids of all ages. Great way to begin a disscusion about what being a friend means, how to be a good friend and how to deal with hurt feelings. Perfect for home or the classroom . The illustrations bring the story to life.

Friendships require maintenance. This book empowers students to create rules and limitations within their friendships. Our Friendship Rules has served as a guide for my students. I ask students to create their own list of friendship rules after we read the book. Ask your kids, what should you do when someone breaks a friendship rule? How does forgiveness play a part in friendships? "To have a friend, you've got to be a friend." We need to TEACH and MODEL what that beautiful quote means. This is a MUST for your book shelf.

Pitch-perfect, non-preachy, told in an authentic voice with a perfect economy of words, and so very very real, OUR FRIENDSHIP RULES is a seamless marriage of story and picture. Our narrator, Alexandra, is a visual thinker and a budding artist, so it is perfectly fitting that more than half of this story is told via Imre Geis's crisp and joyful illustrations and crafty-girl collages (many of which allow the reader a peek into Alexandra's notebooks and sketchbooks). As a career children's bookseller and mother of two, I would personally recommend this book to children from age 5 to 13, as well as to parents, teachers, librarians, and adult friends in need of re-writing their own 'friendship rules.'

As a teacher educator, I've used Peggy Moss' book Say Something to begin important discussions about bullying, teasing and moving beyond being a bystander. Her new book, Our Frienship Rules, will be equally valuable in beginning critical converations about how children treat one another in schools. Using a book to begin this discussion is a fantastic way to initiate the exploration without making any particular individual student uncomfortable ... because we're talking about a book. But then, of course, personal stories flow forward, and soon we are all engaged in the challenging but vital work of making schools safe for all students. Highly recommended to all teachers, counselors and other youth workers as well as parents who want to talk to their own children about what matters

Someone asked me what I thought of Peggy Moss's new book. My answer: "It's important." Our Friendship Rules sheds light on the choices that girls must make- - that we all must make. It's a story of friendship, of betrayal, of forgiveness and redemption. At once lyrical and realistic, this book summons the better angels in all of us. It's inspiring.

The beauty of this story is in the truth of the writing--the authors don't pull any punches, but they manage to create something along the way that is different--they show kids that even though friendship might be tested, there is almost always a way to make things right again.

This is an incredibly beautiful book. It's an amazingly honest rendering of girls' friendships, their strengths and their pitfalls. Most impressively, it is hopeful without being either preachy or saccharine. You will love it!

Nice book about friendship. Finally available also for Italian market. It has been a long time that I wanted to buy it.

My 7-year old read this book with great interest. My aim was to get her thinking about bullying as she can sometimes be insensitive to others, and others have bullied her on occasions. The book is not very special, just a short story of betrayed friendship, however touched some nerve in my daughter so she read it twice already. Pictures are quite engaging in the sense that there is a lot to look at and to analyse for a 7-year old. She liked the drawings (the girl who is telling the story likes drawing and there are many of her drawings on the pages) and made a picture herself of her teacher being angry :) The text is simple, no challenge for a fluent reader, but again there are little notes and extracts from girls notebook on the pages so still a reasonable amount to read. So despite the fact I was not particularly impressed myself, I must admit that it appealed to my daughter and seems to have got her thinking about the subject.