A good friend is irreplaceable: You can talk to him, write him letters, or sip syrup together. But what happens when a friend suddenly disappears? Or when he decides to leave forever, like Lukas the locomotive driver? Popular authors tell seven stories in this book about very different friendships: Janosch: Mail for the Tiger, Gina Ruck-Pauquèt: Bulbul is a Cat, Hans Stempel: The Other Friends, Toon Tellegen: Do You Miss Me?, Hans Wilhelm: Elfie, the Best Dog in the World, Anne Steinwart: A Girl Like Kalle, Michael Ende: How Jim Button Decided to Accompany Lukas. The syllable support reading method makes it easier to read the text: By highlighting individual syllables in color, beginner readers can also read longer words correctly at first glance.