Calvin and Max’s Purr-fect Friendship is a heart-warming digital story and activity book for children aged 4–7 about kindness, friendship, inclusion and celebrating differences.
Calvin is different from the other cats. While they might think about chasing mice, Calvin has a very different wish — he wants a mouse for a friend!
Then Calvin meets Max.
At first Max isn’t quite sure what to make of this friendly cat. But the two soon start talking and discover that although they are very different, they have something important in common — they both love playing hide-and-seek!
Their unusual friendship puzzles the other cats of Whiskerville, but Calvin and Max show everyone that friends don’t have to be exactly like each other.
What Children Learn from Calvin and Max’s Purr-fect Friendship
Children explore kindness, friendship, inclusion, similarities and differences through an engaging story and five simple activities designed especially for young learners.
❤️ A Story About Friendship and Being Different
At Whiskerville’s Friendship Festival, Calvin and Max help the other cats understand that differences don’t have to keep us apart.
Their friendship eventually teaches the whole town that:
Sometimes the most wonderful friendships blossom in the most unexpected places.
A second short story introduces four kittens with different colours, personalities and favourite activities, reinforcing the idea that having friends who are different from us can make life more interesting and fun.
🎯 Five Fun Friendship Activities
The story is followed by five colourful activities created for young children using a digital book.
❤️ Find the Kind Things
Children look at a busy playground scene and point to children who are being kind.
🤝 What Would a Good Friend Do?
A child is sitting alone. Should we invite them to play, walk away or laugh at them?
Children choose the friendly response.
🐾 Friends Can Be Different
Children look carefully at pairs of animals and find the friends who look different from each other.
💕 Choose the Friendship Words
Which things help us to be good friends?
KIND • SHARE • HELP • INCLUDE
Children also learn to recognise unfriendly behaviour such as laughing at someone or pushing.
⭐ The Friendship Challenge
The final activity takes the learning into the child’s everyday life:
Can you do THREE friendly things today?
❤️ Say something kind
🤝 Help someone
😊 Invite someone to join in
Little acts of kindness can make BIG friendships!
EYFS & Key Stage 1 Relevance
⭐ Supports Early Learning
Calvin and Max’s Purr-fect Friendship combines storytelling with simple activities that encourage children to think, talk and make choices about friendship and behaviour.
The book supports learning relevant to:
EYFS – Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Developing positive relationships, recognising kind behaviour, including others and understanding that people can be different.
EYFS – Communication and Language
Talking about characters and their behaviour, answering questions and explaining choices.
Early Key Stage 1 – English
Supporting listening and comprehension, vocabulary, discussion and talking about events and characters in a story.
The book’s central message is reinforced throughout: friends can be different while still sharing interests, having fun and caring about one another.
The activities have been designed to work without children needing to write, draw or colour on the screen.
Children can:
👆 Point to answers
🗣️ Say answers aloud
👀 Look carefully at pictures
💭 Talk about their choices
❤️ Try friendly actions in real life
This makes the book ideal for shared reading with a parent, grandparent, carer or teacher.
📚 Book Details
Recommended age: 4–7 years
Format: Digital Story & Activity Book
Length: 28 pages
Activities: 5
Themes: Friendship • Kindness • Inclusion • Differences • Helping • Sharing
Early learning: EYFS PSED • Communication and Language • Early KS1 English
Part of the magical world of Elliseran and Mushroom Village.
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