Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully, 2nd Edition (Nancy Carlson Picture Books)

This was a good story about bullying and how to handle it

All of the books by Nancy Carlson are delightful. Being a former librarian, I loved reading this book aloud to the students. I want to make sure the children in my family have an opportunity to hear and read it. I would recommend that it be used in Character Education programs!

GREAT BOOK, MY KIDS LOVE IT, AND NANCY CARLSON'S STORIES ALWAYS SEEM TO CARRY A LESSON!

This is not how you deal with a bully. There's a kid named George who is being bullied by a sixth grader who is stealing his lunch because George doesn't have any money to give him. The bully demands various things like a bigger lunch, more cookies, and things like that. George is just getting more and more paranoid about being bullied, and then his friend Harriet asks him what's wrong and he explains. She suggests that they should tell the principal, but he says that won't work because the bully doesn't go to the same school. So the kids themselves come up with a solution to the problem, instead of going to an adult, which is what you really need to do in this situation. They make a really bad-tasting lunch with hot peppers, lard, vinegar, and garlic powder, and then the bully steals George's disgusting lunch. That apparently somehow fixes the problem, although Harriet's older cousin follows George to school for a week.That would just make the bully mad. The bully would be angry at you having done that to him, and probably take revenge as soon as that week was over. That's not how you deal with a problem like that. You really need to get somebody involved. First you tell the bully to stop, and if they don't stop, then you get an adult involved. You don't want to end up in a situation where the bully is actually violent with you. There are only threats in this story, but kids aren't going to come up with the solution to bullying on their own. This whole book is a bad idea. Don't do this.Message: People will stop bullying you if you trick them into eating something yucky.For more children's book reviews, see my website at drttmk dot com.