Description: A new furry friend appears between two furry best friends! The small purple furry creature and the big orange furry creature are close friends. One day, as the two are about to play together, a blue furry creature comes along and asks to join in. The orange furry creature happily says, "Sure!" but the purple furry creature hesitates, saying, "Well…" Hearing the orange creature's answer, the blue furry creature excitedly jumps right in between them. As the newly joined blue furry creature looks through the toy box, it finds a top hat and cane used for tap dancing. Wouldn't it be fun to wear the hat and use the cane to tap dance? So it offers to share with the orange furry creature — luckily, there happen to be two hats and two canes. But wait, there are three furry creatures, and only two hats and two canes! There's nothing for the purple furry creature. The orange and blue furry creatures start tap dancing together happily with their matching hats and canes. Not wanting to be left out, the purple furry creature grabs an explorer's hat and umbrella instead and dances alongside the other two. But while the orange and blue furry creatures dance in perfect rhythm together, the purple furry creature is out of step and everything becomes a mess. The purple furry creature gets angry. So it brings out a fan and blows away the blue furry creature's hat. While the blue furry creature goes off to fetch its flying hat, the purple furry creature asks the orange furry creature to play dinosaur hunting instead. When the orange furry creature asks where their new friend, the blue furry creature, went, the purple furry creature answers: the blue furry creature is not our friend! Will the blue furry creature be able to become a new friend to these two furry creatures? Will the purple furry creature be able to accept the blue furry creature as a friend? And there's one more twist! The orange furry creature, who seemed to have welcomed the new friend so well, later shouts at the other two furry creatures, "We are not friends!" Why in the world would that be? A book that teaches children how to make and welcome new friends Adults often say that children play well together on their own — that making friends comes easily to them. But making new friends isn't always easy for kids either. Especially when a new friend tries to join an already close pair of friends, it can be even harder. Why did the purple furry creature get angry? Because its own friend, the orange furry creature, played with the blue furry creature — someone it had just met that day — without including the purple one. The purple furry creature may have felt like its friend had been taken away by the blue furry creature. It may have felt jealous, having thought it was the orange creature's only friend, only to see it get along so well with someone new. Watching the three furry creatures feels a lot like watching our own children. A child who welcomes new friends easily, a child who is wary of new friends, a child who feels upset thinking a friend has been "stolen" by someone else — these are all familiar scenes among children. That's why kids will find themselves drawn into the story of the three furry creatures in We Are(n't) Friends! as if it were their very own story. And for children who are struggling with making and accepting new friends, this book can offer a wonderful and gentle hint. The (Not) Series: Building Children's Social Skills and English Skills This book is the ninth title in the (Not) series, designed to build children's social skills and English proficiency. The (Not) series includes: You Are (Not) Small, which talks about differences between one another; That's (Not) Mine, about fighting over an object neither wants to share; I'm (Not) Scared, which shows overcoming fears together; This Is a Secret…, the story of a frog afraid of swimming; and We Are(n't) Friends!, which warmly and humorously portrays the process of making and accepting a new friend — along with their English-language editions: You Are (Not) Small, That's (Not) Mine, I'm (Not) Scared, and more.