Author/Illustrator: Miriam Cohen and Lillian Hoban
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age Group: K - 1st
Summary:
Jim and Paul are best friends, or so they thought. At the beginning of the book, the two are best friends but then an argument arises in class to where Jim did not say Paul was his best friend so Paul took it as they were not friends at all anymore so they sat opposite of each other and did not talk to each other. During recess, the teacher realized she forgot to grab something from the classroom and asks those two to go and get it so they do. Without talking to each other. While they are back in the classroom, Jim realizes that their science experience they were doing, hatching baby chicks with a heat lamp, was off. Jim shouts at Paul and he goes and gets the janitor to replace the light bulb in the lamp. Fixing the problem they had they were able to come together like best friends.
In my classroom, I would use this book to ask students what makes a best friend and talk about emotions and how to handle them appropriately.
I think the age group is appropriate because at this age they are just now going into school and being around new people so how to process emotions over friends is important and needed.
With this book, I would have the children write about the scene where the two friends argue and ask them to write how they would had approached that situation better.
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