You Can't Have Too Many Friends!

The book You Can't Have Too Many Friends! by Mordicai Gerstein is a fun book about how you can never have too many friends. This book is about a Duck who has a great garden and he grows many jelly beans. One day the King of the land asked to borrow his jelly beans and the Duck allowed him. The Duck waits a whole year but the King never returns his jelly beans, so Duck decides to go to them himself. Along the way he runs into many friends that want to come along. He shrinks his friends down and carries them with him as he went to see the King. When he gets to the King's castle, the King refuses to help him and keeps sending the Duck away. The Duck uses his friends to help him get his jelly beans back.

This book can be used to teach children forgiveness and friendship. This would be best used for children in younger grades to help them see that friends are everywhere even if people are mean to you before. Parents can also use this book at home to teach the same thing to their children. Friendship is an important concept for all children to understand. This book does a great job of helping children realize that forgiveness is important and so are friends.