Toodles and Teeny: A Story About Friendship

Mom's Choice Award for Children's Picture Books (Gold)

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Toodles found her best pal ever. But what seems like good fortune turns as Streaky, Cathy, and Boo-Boo Bat -- and all her other barnyard friends -- become mad at her for being buddies with Teeny.

What's a turkey to do? Best friend or good friends? Old friends or new friend?

With humor and playfulness, Toodles and Teeny beautifully illustrates the complexity and importance of friendships in childhood, and that best friends and good friends can all be shared.

A Note to Parents includes additional information and strategies for helping kids build and maintain healthy friendships.

Jill Neimark is an author of fiction and nonfiction, an award-winning science journalist and essayist, and former features editor at Psychology Today magazine. Her credits include the middle-grade novels The Secret Spiraland The Golden Rectangle, the adult novel Bloodsong, and the adult nonfiction title Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving. Her picture books include I Want Your Moo and Toodles & Teeny: A Story of Friendship. She lives in Georgia. Visit her at www.jillneimark.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter: @JillNeimark.

Marcella Bakur Weiner, EdD, PhD, is a fellow of APA and professor adjunct at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She is also president of the Mapleton-Midwood Community Mental Health Center and was chief staff psychologist at the Park Slope Children’s Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Weiner has authored twenty-five books and seventy-five journal articles, and she has been interviewed for numerous national television shows, radio talk shows, and magazine articles. Her most recent book is Women Psychotherapists: Journeys in Healing, co-authored with Lillian Comas-Diaz. Together Neimark and Weiner authored and Adinolfi illustrated the Magination Press book, I Want Your Moo, a 2010 Learning Magazine(R) Teachers’ Choice AwardSM for Children’s Books.

JoAnn Adinolfi was born in New York City, on Staten Island. She is the author and illustrator of Tina’s Dinerand is the illustrator of Halloween Hoots and Howls and The Perfect Thanksgiving, among dozens of other children’s books. She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Visit her at www.joannadinolfi.com and follow her on Facebook: @JoAnnAdinolfiStudio and Instagram: @ joanne_adinolfi.