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Let's Be Friends!
Making and keeping friends is exciting (and sometimes challenging) for young children. Children will enjoy exploring the ups and downs of friendship with the fun and reassuring books on the Friendship Book List.

Celebrate the love of friends and family this Valentine's Day with the Love is All Around Book List.
     Cover Art: Fox Makes Friends

Fingerplays & Songs
My Friends

My friends are happily waving,
(wave to others)
Waving, waving.
My friends are happily waving,
And I will wave at them.

My friends are sweetly smiling,
(smile at others)
Smiling, smiling.
My friends are sweetly smiling,
And I will smile at them.

Cover Art: The Friendship Wish

If You're Friendly

Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"
If you're friendly and you know it,
wave your hands.
If you're friendly and you know it,
wave your hands.
If you're friendly and you know it,
and you really want to show it,
If you're friendly and you know it,
wave your hands!
Repeat with "clap your hands," "touch your nose," "stomp your feet," "shout hello," etc. Be creative and have fun thinking of actions.


Books
Cover Art: How to Be a Friend How to Be a Friend
Dinosaur characters illustrate the value of friends, how to make friends, and how to be and not be a good friend, and how to enjoy being by yourself.
Cover Art: Being Friends Being Friends
Two very different girls find that the joy of being friends enables them to share their various likes and dislikes.

New Books

Mr. Prickles: a Quill-Fated Love Story

Little Bea and the Snowy Day

Ladybug Girl Makes Friends

I Don't Want to
be a Pea

more New Picture Books

Storytimes at your Library
Many storytimes require registration and fill up early. Registration is available online, by phone and in person.
  • Baby Storytime - for children birth to 24 months.
    Delight and stimulate your baby's senses with books and music.
  • Toddler Storytime - for children ages 2 and 3.
    Nurture a love of books. Learn letters, sounds, and new words.
  • Preschool Storytime - for children ages 4 to 6.
    Enjoy stories together and build language skills.
  • Family Storytime - for children 2 years old and up.
    Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
  • World Language Storytime - for children 2 years old and up.
    Experience the world in other languages.
see all Storytimes at Hennepin County Library

see all events at Hennepin County Library


Amy Amy Luedtke, Birth to Six Librarian
Learn more about early literacy at Birth to Six website

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