Use these picture books about friendship to show the children in your lives examples of the different areas of friendship.

Picture Books Be a Hero with Skipper the Seal by William H. McRaven and Kelly Marie McRaven, illus. by Howard McWilliam (Little, Brown, Mar. 18 $19.99; ISBN 978-0-316-57640-6).

Familiar characters from three acclaimed middle grade novels will soon make return appearances, this time in the pages of ...

Chasten Buttigieg said he wanted to see a family that looks like his in the pages of a picture book. John Green will join him on Indianapolis stop of tour.