Tips for Using Friends and Pals and Brothers, Too with children:
After sharing the story with the children, reread it, point to the rhyming words inviting the children to repeat them with you. Add pantomiming the activities of the two brothers to repeated readings. Take the children on an imaginary trip through the seasons of the year. For example, when visiting fall, talk about what we see, and ask the children to pantomime their favorite activity for that season, and so on through the other three seasons.
Tips for Using Friends and Pals and Brothers, Too with families:
Share with families that this is a great title for young children because of the positive sibling relationship between the brothers, the rhyming words, and the learning that it can offer about the seasons of the year. In the story, the brothers have nicknames for each other. “I’m bear, he’s squirrel.” Share interesting family nicknames. Suggest that families talk about nicknames when reading this story to their children.