Books Like All We Needed to Say
Families who loved All We Needed to Say by Marilyn Singer often look for books with a similar feel. These 20 recommendations were selected for their similarity in style, theme, and reading level.
Families who loved All We Needed to Say by Marilyn Singer often look for books with a similar feel. These 20 recommendations were selected for their similarity in style, theme, and reading level.
Reach for this book when your child is struggling to navigate the social friction of having a best friend who likes things they hate, or when they feel pressured to 'act the same' as their peers. This collection of poems captures the internal lives of Tanya and Sophie as they move through a shared school day with entirely different perspectives. It explores themes of identity, social comparison, and the quiet bravery required to be yourself within a friendship. Appropriate for elementary schoolers, these poems provide a safe space to discuss how two people can experience the same event differently. It is an excellent tool for building perspective-taking skills and normalizing the fact that even the best of friends don't have to be twins in their interests or temperaments. Parents will appreciate the subtle, realistic way it handles the 'small' dramas of school life that feel very big to a child.
