We Can Get Along. A Child's Book of Choices

20 Pages·2011·2.452 MB·English

by  Lauren Murphy Payne,Claudia Rohling

We Can
Get Along
A Child’s Book
of Choices
We Can
Get Along
A Child’s Book
of Choices
By Lauren Murphy Payne, M.S.W.
Illustrations by Claudia Rohling
Copyright © 1997 by Lauren Murphy Payne, M.S.W., Claudia Rohling, M.S.W.,
and Pamela Espeland
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Payne, Lauren Murphy, 1956– For Aaron and Adam, my children
We can get along : a child’s book of choices / by Lauren Murphy Payne ; illustrations by
Claudia Rohling. and Fred and Gloria, my parents.
p. cm.
Summary: In simple text, describes how it feels when people get along well together and To E.DLO.—for making me aware.
when they do not, and explains that one has control over how one reacts in both kinds of
situations.
ISBN 1-57542-013-9 LMP
1. Social interaction—Juvenile literature. 2. Interpersonal relations—Juvenile literature. 3.
Choice (Psychology)—Juvenile literature. [1. Interpersonal relations.]
I. Rohling, Claudia, 1947– ill. II. Title.
HQ784.S56P39 1997
302—dc21 96-29528 To my mother,
CIP
AC who told me to “climb every mountain,”
eBook ISBN: 978-1-57542-770-6 and to my dear friends
Free Spirit Publishing does not have control over or assume responsibility for author or for climbing them with me. . . .
third-party websites and their content.
Thank you.
Reading Level Grades 2–3; Interest Level Ages 3–8;
Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level L
Book design and production by MacLean & Tuminelly CR
The illustrations are done in Berol Prismacolor Markers, pen, and ink on vellum.
The type is set in ITC Berkeley Oldstyle, composed by MacLean & Tuminelly.
20 19 18 17 16 15
Printed in Hong Kong
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I know lots of people
at school, in my
neighborhood, and
on the playground.
Sometimes we get along . . .
And sometimes we don’t.
When we get along,
we talk together.
We laugh, work, and
play together.
Sometimes we are
quiet together . . .
When we get along,
I feel happy and safe.
When we don’t get along,
we fight and argue.
We yell, hit, or cry.
Sometimes we say and
do mean things . . .
When we don’t get along,
I feel angry and afraid.
I can remember my
feelings when I am with
other people.
I can remember times
when I felt happy or
angry, safe or afraid.
My feelings can help me . . .
To make good choices.
I can think about my
words before I say them.
I can choose what to do
before I do it.
I am in charge of my
words and actions . . .
They belong to me.
I can talk and listen.
I can take turns and share.
I can help to solve problems
and work things out.
I can do my part . . .
To get along.