Alissa learned the power in the tiny word "So."

i thought that this book was very enteresting because a new kid named micheal had just came to lil bills school and started trouble. micheal had made up a game called the dozens and you had to talk the other person tweleve times until the meanest thing won and the other kids had to vote.

To be honest it was ok but it bore me a little bit but, i like a little bit.

I love this book so much.

It’s a cute book. Bad timing on my part, but, again, I am shamelessly reading anything to get this Read Harder challenge done. This technically qualifies as an Oprah Book Club Read. Darn those 4 or 5 novels that I read that weren’t on the list. Now I’m cramming but refuse not to meet this goal completely and honestly. 5ish more hours left til I stop reading, watch the ball drop and rush out and watch the fireworks. Happy New Year’s Eve!

2016 Reading Challenge: "a book on Oprah's Book Club List"

Read this for the mentoring program I'm in.

Just finished reading the childrens’ book “THE MEANEST THING TO SAY” by BILL COSBY & illustrated by VARNETTE P. HONEYWOOD. This is #26 in my Oprah Reads and Re-reads bookclub. Michael Reilly has introduced a new game to Little Bill and his friends. You get twelve chances to say something mean to another kid--and whoever comes up with the biggest insult is the winner. Insults start flying: "Jose hops with the frogs in science lab!" "Andrew eats frogs for dinner!" "Little Bill shoots baskets like a girl!" Little Bill tries to think of really mean things to say in retaliation. But Dad teaches him a strategy that enables Little Bill to save face while remaining the nice kid that he really is!

This book, much like the Little Bill TV show, teaches students a great lesson about using hurtful language. It also explains a cute little strategy one can use to deal with this kind of mean language.

I am totally confused as to why this book is on Oprah's book club list?!?! It is terrible. Intended for young audiences this book presents a problem: kids being mean to each other. The solution? To not engage with them. The result is that the mean kids will suddenly be nice, especially if you include them in an activity that you want to play. The parents in the book don't really address how wrong the situation is. I imagine there are a couple factors at play here. The first factor being parenting styles and parenting mindsets (and even society mindsets) at the time of publication. The second factor has everything to do with the author.

AR Quiz No. 19888 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 0.5
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The title is a little misleading because one might think that its about mean tgings to say, or even a story about mean people but it is not. Its a good book for children to learn how to not care about the things other students might say about them to hurt their feelings. This book goes to show that the school yard can be a very scary place sometimes for fun and games but sometimes it can be menacing to others.