Alicia's Best Friends

by Lisa Jahn-Clough

Alicia has four friends, and her friends are great, but when she decides to throw a best friends party, they all want to know which one of them is her best friend. Is it Mitchell, Charlotte, Henry, Lucy, or Alicia’s dog, Neptune? They say she has to choose, but Alicia doesn’t know whom to pick. How can she, when each one of them is uniquely special to her? With characteristic emotional honesty and a little creativity, Alicia finds her own wonderful way of solving the happy dilemma of being blessed with not one, but many, best friends.

Genres: Friendship, Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 24, 2003

About the author

Lisa Jahn-Clough has published picture books, early readers and young adult novels. Her work has won awards from Child Magazine, Parent’s Choice, Bank Street, Raising Readers, and Entertainment Weekly. Her upcoming book, THE KIDS OF CATTYWAMPUS STREET is released July 2021.

Lisa went to Hampshire College and has an MFA from Emerson College. She is now Associatev Professor at Rowan Univ, and also teaches at Hamline Univ. in the Writing for Children and YA low-residency program.

She lives with her husband and their Sato dog in Portland, Maine in a little yellow house in the summer, and across from a cornfield in southern New Jersey in the winter.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story about loving all the people and not choosing favorites.

[Gail · Rating 3 out of 5]

My three year old daughter liked this book. I think it needs better illustrations.

[Ms.Weinfurter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for lesson about having more than one friend