AUTHOR: Lana Button
ILLUSTRATOR: Tania Howells
PUBLISHER: Kids Can Press
Kristianne comes in to school with an announcement that she is having a fantastic birthday party and everyone is invited. But then Kristianne begins to exploit her position as party-thrower by requiring everyone do everything she says or they cannot come to her fantastic birthday party. Marco won't let her be line leader so she ceremoniously draws a line through his name on her birthday invite list. Julian won't wear pink the next day so she kicks him off the list, too. Willow wants to speak up, but nothing comes out.
Then she gets an idea. She draws a line through her name on the list, too. Soon everyone else follows suit and no one has to do what Kristianne says anymore. Then Willow notices Kristianne doesn't eat her lunch and she doesn't have anyone to play with at recess and she gets stuck at the back of the line at the end of the day. Willow decides to walk back to be the last one and Kristianne apologizes to Willow and then to the whole class. She announces everyone is invited to her fantastic birthday party. Everyone goes and has a fantastic time.
This adorable story serves as a reminder to kids to 1) be brave and stick up to a bossy peer, 2) stand up for your friends, and 3) being a bully means not having any real friends, and maybe not any friends at all.
Read this book if:
- You need to know how to stand up to a bully or a bossy friend.
- You have been bossing your friends around lately.
- You want to know how to be brave like Willow.
BOOK BRIEFS:
AGES: 3-7
E/S = Emotional & Social Development
I = Insightful
No comments:
Post a Comment