Typically they are small like a standard friendship book.

Sometimes a friendship book can get misplaced and take several years to reach its intended maker.

The German friendship books (or poetry albums) serve a similar purpose but are kept, not sent away.

Singha gave Mituna a paper to sign for their friendship book.

Some people find friendship books fun because you can see where they have been in a trail back to the original sender/recipient.

The most spectacular lot is probably a "friendship book," called an album amicorum, from the early 1600's.

It is considered common courtesy to pass the friendship books on to another pen pal as quickly as possible.

Their modern derivations include yearbooks, friendship books, and guest books.

Penpals also make and pass around friendship books, slams and crams.

Slams are friendship books that include a theme of questions, either "Sign if you did/like the following", "What is your favorite" or other similar questions.

The Emily Windsnap Friendship Book was released in summer of 2008.

As the name implies, friendship sheets are nearly the same as friendship books, but they are made on a single sheet of paper or stationery.

Another rule of thumb with friendship books is that after two years of circulation, the friendship book should be returned home to its owner.

The modern German Freundschaftsbuch ("Friendship book") has the same kind of preprinted questions and is typically aimed at the same age group.

Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books'

Friendship books that have a musical theme, where you have to add lyrics to your entry, are called "lyrics" or "lyrics sheets".

Another exhibition is devoted to Hegel's life story, and includes his famous beret and his Stammbuch (an early form of friendship book).

Despite the artistic expressions used in these types of friendship books, the basic rules of passing the friendship book to person to person is the same.

Another page shows a lock of hair from the friendship book of Anne Wagner, a friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Friendship books (also known as "FBs" in their abbreviated form) are small booklets made by stapling paper together, or are sometimes just sheets or strips of paper.

Friendship books that require entrants to make drawings, use stickers or magazine photographs are known as "deco" friendship books or just simply "decos".

Artists' books, decobooks and friendship books, banknotes, stickers, tickets, artist trading cards (ATCs), badges, food packaging, diagrams and maps have all inspired individual and collaborative work.

Sarah is currently living in Central London and her illustrations feature in Liz Kessler's upcoming publication Emily Windsnap's Fin-Tastic Friendship Book by Candlewick Press which is due for release on April 14, 2009.

The same kind of form is now found in the Dutch vriendenboek ("friends book") and German Freundschaftsbuch ("friendship book"), used by small children; and the questions that the confession album contained live on in the Proust Questionnaire often used for celebrity interviews.