Friendship Is Like Love with More Letters in It: Children’S Colorful Views of Friendship

By Xlibris US

FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE LOVE WITH MORE LETTERS IN IT: Childrens Colorful Views of Friendship is a collection of laugh-out-loud humor and poignant commentary on the universal phenomenon of friendship, based on the original and spontaneous observations of youngsters, ages 4 to 13. This sweet book is as funny as it is insightful, and it gently moves the reader - whether eight or eighty - to reflect on a persons own friendships throughout the course of his or her life.

This delightful compendium covers many, many light-hearted and engaging subjects anything that might emerge and shape and color a friendship. The young philosophers and humorists expound on these and numerous other topics: what were the worlds first friendships like, how do most contemporary friendships begin, what type of person should you select, how do you build a friendship, how are female friendships different than male friendships, what every true friendship must possess, how friends are different than relatives, and what are some of the most colorful reasons that friends sometimes argue.

In response to such intriguing topics, the youngest do indeed say some of the darndest things about friendship and their friends. Here are a few choice morsels of wisdom:



Friendship is a ship that can have two people on it, and it can float good without the people having to steer too much. (Maurice, age 11)

Friends are like two pennies because they just seem to make sense together. (Kera, age 9)

To get someone to be your friend, buy them a friendship card and show them it cost you a lot by drawing a red circle around the price. (Ryan, age 9)

Every good friendship needs to have enough shared toys to get through the rough times. (Mitch, age 7)

In friendship, you share things like cookies. In love, you might share bigger stuff like children. (Chung, age 10)

Remember that you dont ever buy friendship with money or gold, you earn it with respect. (Rodney, age 9)

A friend in need is a friend who hands you a tissue when your nose is running. (Marie, age 6)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499052473

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Copyright © 2014 by David Heller and David Johns.

ISBN:      Softcover   978-1-4990-5248-0

                 eBook        978-1-4990-5247-3

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Rev. date: 07/23/2014

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter One Friends Are Like Two Pennies Because They Just Seem To Make Sense Together!

Chapter Two If You Want A New Friend, Tell Her You Won A Lifetime Supply Of Bubblegum!

Chapter Three True Friends Are Loving And Careful About Toy Property!

Chapter Four In Friendship You Share Cookies, In Love You Share Big Things Like Children!

Chapter Five Old Friends Are Great Because They Remember Your Whole History Even When You Forget Half Of It!

Chapter Six Friendship Makes The World Go ’Round!

DEDICATION

IN APPRECIATION OF THE BLESSING OF OUR NEARLY

FORTY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP

INTRODUCTION

Of all the talents and abilities an adult or child can possess in life, the capacity for meaningful friendship may well be among the most important. Friendship makes us smile and comforts us when we are sad. Friendship teaches us about our need for other people and about ourselves — as who we are is revealed through our relationship to others. Friendship is the cement of the soul (Robert Blair) and it is the glue of social development — a binding experience that uplifts us and renders us more fulfilled as social and caring individuals.

Most people have many friendships throughout their lives. We begin with a variety of childhood friendships, typically emanating out of school, club, sports and arts activities. Often, we develop a best friend who stands out from the crowd and shares our interests and perspectives on things. Later, through adolescence and early adulthood, we acquire new friends, some of whom may differ from us in background and temperament. Our tolerance for differences tends to grow and we develop concomitantly with that newfound flexibility. As we reach full-fledged adulthood, we are likely to maintain a few