Name: In-Store: Storytime w/ Joshua David Stein: Make New Friends
Start: 2025-11-16T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-16T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Storytime w\/ Joshua David Stein: Make New Friends$

"A tender, unexpected portrait of familial acceptance." —Kirkus Reviews
About this Event

Event guidelines:

RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
Additional copies of the event book will be available for purchase in-store.
The reading will be followed by a book signing.
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From an acclaimed team comes this empathetic and reassuring picture book about the loaded question that every “new kid” or socially anxious child dreads:“Did you make any new friends today?”

Tomasso doesn’t know anyone at his new school and has no one to play with at recess. So, knowing his dad will ask, he resolves to make a few new friends.

Each day his crew grows; there’s Roland (a foam ball), Coco (a milk carton), and Karen (a very pink eraser). But when his dad insists on having his friends over for pizza, Tomasso knows that soon his secret will be out. Will his dad welcome his new friends, even if they’re not who he expects?

Written for any child who struggles with making friends or social anxiety, and featuring warm, witty illustrations, Make New Friends is both silly and sincere, inviting kids to trust the unconditional love and acceptance of a parent.

Joshua David Stein is a cookbook and children’s book author, journalist and restaurant critic. His work includes Notes from a Young Black Chef and My America, with Kwame Onwuachi; Il Buco: Stories & Recipes, with Donna Lennard; The Nom Wah Cookbook, with Wilson Tang; Vino: An Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine, with Joe Campanale; Jang: The Secret to Korean Cooking, with Mingoo Kang and Nadia Cho; Why I Cook? with Tom Colicchio and many more. Among his children’s books are What’s Cooking?; Can I Eat That?; Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture; Solitary Animals: Introverts of the Wild and The Catalogue of Hugs. He lives in Brooklyn with his sons, Augustus and Achilles.