Who is our friend?

The repeating problem-and-help sequence makes the story easy to follow together. The pictures add visual clues, while the ending opens a gentle way to talk about joining a group and asking to be friends.

Bird eats the fleas on Rhino and pecks Crocodile’s teeth clean. These animal-care moments are shown matter-of-factly in playful illustrations; consider whether a child might find them surprising.

What does Bird do that helps each animal, and what might make a friendship work even when friends are different?

Pause at each animal’s difficulty and invite a guess about how Bird might help. Then notice facial expressions and details in the pictures, and let the child retell the repeated pattern.