Diplo Dinosaur Wants a Roar-some Friend

About this book

There's a new T-Rex at school and Diplo the Diplodocus is convinced he's going to eat them all. To make matters worse, Diplo's friend Mina is being friendly to Spike instead of being Diplo's best friend. They're not even drawing their comic together. And when she pairs with Spike in the three-legged race, Diplo has had enough. He tells Mina he has a new best friend. Luckily, Mum is there to talk about his feelings of jealousy, and Spike of all people has some excellent advice on how to repair the friendship with Mina...

This gentle story will be reassuring and helpful to children who have many mixed emotions about friendship dynamics. Diplo finds that talking through his feelings with someone - his mum in this case - helps him gain perspective on why he and his friends acted in certain ways. There is a lovely gratitude exercise at the back of the book where the reader is encouraged to think about the people they often take for granted. (Parents and carers will particularly enjoy this page!) The whole book is very visually appealing, with illustrations that are sweet and full of expression, and lots of speech bubbles and pages that are almost comic-strip style. The chapters are short, too, and the text is minimal, nicely spaced and uses infant 'a's. A charming chapter book to explore feelings about friendship.   

 

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