Pickles Helps a Friend

About the Book

In this story, Pickles is a very nice and friendly alligator. He lives near a swamp in the middle of the forest. His real name is Arthur, but everyone calls him Pickles because that is his favorite snack and he is always eating them. On this bright, sunny day, Pickles is in a happy mood until he sees his friend Teddy the turtle coming. Pickles can tell that something is wrong by the way his friend is looking. Teddy seems to be very sad about something. Teddy explains that his mom had to give away his favorite stuffed bear. Throughout the story, Pickles, Teddy, and their other friends Jake and Chip help Teddy with his problem by trying to find a new favorite toy for Teddy. At the end of the story Pickles does something very unselfish for his friend. He gives Teddy his own stuffed bear. All of the characters learn a great lesson about what good friendship means and how valuable it is to have friends you can count on.

About the Author

Kirstie Dixon is a public school teacher in North Carolina. Her passions are reading, exercising, her husband, and her children. She lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband John and their two sons Andrew and Brandon. . Along with her job as a teacher she has also received her personal training license and hopes to get into that field part-time. She has been a classroom teacher for nearly twenty years. Her goal every school year has always been to get her students as passionate about reading as she is. She has always wanted to publish a children’s book and hopes to continue a series with the characters in her first book. She hopes that she can instill in her students the love of reading for a lifetime. One of the reasons she wants to write books is because she knows that books can teach life lessons if they are written for students and they inspire students. She hopes that her books can teach some life lessons in a fun and entertaining way. She also hopes that parents read her books with their children and talk about the those lessons.