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Godzilla vs. Kong: Sometimes Friends Fight
Movie monsters Godzilla and Kong teach young readers how to be friends even when times are tough.
Being a good friend isn’t always easy for kids, and it’s really not easy for giant monsters. Godzilla vs. Kong: Sometimes Friends Fight (But They Always Make Up) pairs 10 tips for how to be a good friend and prompts to practice counting with adorable scenes of Godzilla and Kong working out their differences.
Playful Learning + Pop Culture Bonding: Parents, grandparents, and grown-ups can introduce kids to beloved movie monsters Godzilla and Kong.
Social/Emotional Intelligence: Helps kids explore and identify their feelings, and develop empathy and kindness.
Supports Essential Skills: Young learners can practice counting, learn number awareness, and develop early literacy skills.
New Series!: Collect all PlayPop books including Ghostbusters: Book of Shapes, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: E.T’s First Words, and Back to the Future: Telling Time with Marty McFly.
Being a good friend isn’t always easy for kids, and it’s really not easy for giant monsters. Godzilla vs. Kong: Sometimes Friends Fight (But They Always Make Up) pairs 10 tips for how to be a good friend and prompts to practice counting with adorable scenes of Godzilla and Kong working out their differences.
Playful Learning + Pop Culture Bonding: Parents, grandparents, and grown-ups can introduce kids to beloved movie monsters Godzilla and Kong.
Social/Emotional Intelligence: Helps kids explore and identify their feelings, and develop empathy and kindness.
Supports Essential Skills: Young learners can practice counting, learn number awareness, and develop early literacy skills.
New Series!: Collect all PlayPop books including Ghostbusters: Book of Shapes, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: E.T’s First Words, and Back to the Future: Telling Time with Marty McFly.
20 pages, Board Book
Published April 6, 2021
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June 8, 2021Godzilla and Kong interacting are foregrounded in the illustrations, with the things the text tells you to count being way smaller and peripheral to the main action, which felt like a poor design choice to me -- but my partner noted it's a sort of "I Spy" conceit.
The statements on each page of attributes of a good friend are solid, though they don't always seem clearly linked to the illustration -- for example, "A good friend is someone you can count on," paired with an illustration of Kong with his hands over his eyes and a forest behind him, which I eventually realized was him counting while playing hide-and-seek with Godzilla (I guess we were going for the counting pun?).
The illustrations are cute versions of Godzilla and Kong, and it's sweet to see them playing together as friends.
The statements on each page of attributes of a good friend are solid, though they don't always seem clearly linked to the illustration -- for example, "A good friend is someone you can count on," paired with an illustration of Kong with his hands over his eyes and a forest behind him, which I eventually realized was him counting while playing hide-and-seek with Godzilla (I guess we were going for the counting pun?).
The illustrations are cute versions of Godzilla and Kong, and it's sweet to see them playing together as friends.
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May 19, 2021packed with subtext and emotional resonance
April 19, 2021
This was a very adorable book. We got it for our son, who is 4, and even though he is excellent with counting, he is a MASSIVE Godzilla/Kong/Monsterverse fan. We have no Kong or Godzilla books for him at the moment so I knew this one was a must buy.
The illustrations are great (and if you've seen Godzilla vs Kong you'll love the unexpected third friend that pops up) and each message is very cute and simple. It really reinforces positivity, friendship and helping each other out.
We loved this one and have read it about 6 times already!
The illustrations are great (and if you've seen Godzilla vs Kong you'll love the unexpected third friend that pops up) and each message is very cute and simple. It really reinforces positivity, friendship and helping each other out.
We loved this one and have read it about 6 times already!
July 17, 2025
I didn't really care for the muted-color, video cartoon-ish illustrations, and I was surprised by the choice to direct attention to uninteresting background objects for counting. Meanwhile, there's a lot of friendship stuff playing out with Godzilla and Kong in the foreground, none of the text alluding to the unnecessary and, in this case irrelevant, subtitle "Sometimes Friends Fight (But they always make up)."
July 8, 2022
One of my little storytime kids is obsessed with cryptids and kaiju, much like myself, and she got me a Bigfoot bracelet and this book as a present. Today I got to fulfill my dream of doing a Kaiju/Cryptid themed storytime. She was very pleased.
April 19, 2021
Godzilla & Kong playing around the world. Best counting book ever!
May 5, 2021
When it said "a good friend always plays fair" I felt that.
June 24, 2021
Fun learn to count 10 ways to be good friends book with Godzilla and King King with cute illustrations
October 14, 2022
Love this! More importantly - my kid loves this. Practice your counting while building your social skills. Cute art to boot. What's not to love?
October 30, 2025
We read this to our dog 😃
October 15, 2022
I didn't like this one as much as Kong and Me, but it's still charming, and little kids will enjoy the counting mechanic. The art is also super cute. There were some bits I thought were a little inconsistent, but overall fun stuff.
Edit: I read it again because I was thinking to write a longer review for a publication.
Edit: I read it again because I was thinking to write a longer review for a publication.
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