Book excerpt: From the author of the bestseller children's book Joyful Trouble comes a happy bedtime story for children 6-9 that will fire up their imagination!Be there for a friend in need is what this story is about.Or one for all and all for one! Just like the musketeers, our friends learn that strength IS in their number. Friendship means being there for each other during happy days but also during rainy ones. If you wish with all your might and think long enough you will find a way to cheer up your sad friend.This is book 5 in the Happy Friends Series. Book 6: The Blue Forest. Book 4: The Summer Wind and Lizard."Patricia Furstenberg's collection of twelve stories, Happy Friends, is a classic collection of stories to charm and to teach young readers the value of life and the value of good friends. Each of the twelve stories stands on its own, but each story interacts with the next as the plot thickens. The individual stories become Little Tail's journey of discovery as he leaves his home and friends, only to discover that Snow might be interesting, but so are his friends back home. For as "The Book of Life" says, and is often quoted in Happy Friends, "The time spent in the company of friends will, more than once, become part of our most cherished memories, staying with us for the rest of our lives." Happy Friends is a treasure to be enjoyed and shared over and over again"(Reader's Favorite Book Review)