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Always remember nice words are better than mean ones!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is about saying mean things to one another, and how to stand up for yourself when it happens.
I enjoyed the illustrations and color.

Went into this with low expectations and was still thoroughly disappointed. When I was a little kid Bill Cosby had interesting, useful things to say about the childhood experience. Also, on The Electric Company, he helped me learn to read. This is 40 pages of trash and nonsense where he tells us the way to make friends with a bully is to laugh at him until he's unhinged with rage and then invite him to play basketball. Maybe there's a kid that would work on, I don't know, but my experience with bullies was that if I laughed at them and frustrated them to the point of rage, I could expect to get knocked down and spit on, at the very least. Usually they stole from me, too.

Whatever else Cosby was doing between 1977 and 1997 (and I think we all know what he was doing), he was not keeping in touch with the kids. Or reality. Even the jokes are bad. The art's pretty good. That's the best I can say.

Little Bill feels pressured to play a "game" of insults and cruel words. I can't remember which family member gave him the advice, but I loved it. When someone said something ugly or hateful, his answer should be a simple, "so?" Every time, that should be his reply. And you know what? It worked! Plus, it irritated the heck out of his tormenter, which is just a delightful bonus.

Cute kids book

A great book to read to children who are being bullied. A bully moves into a school and through his influence, almost turns his classmates into bullies themselves, until they learn the proper response to the mean things he says.

Soooo is one of the easiest, most annoying and best comebacks, it shows that you don’t have to be mean to change a mean person.

I feel like this book could be used to address bullying and maybe teach children how to do with mean comments from peers! This book had a different approach to bullying, it changed it into a game instead of an actual children bullying another! Very cute! :)

A great book to read to children who are being bullied. A bully moves into a school and through his influence, almost turns his classmates into bullies themselves, until they learn the proper response to the mean things he says.

Yeah it is a book by Bill Cosby but it is cute and smart for beginning readers.

This is a great little book with a big lesson. A new kid comes to school and doesn't quite know how to make friends so he comes up with a game where the person who says the meanest thing wins. Little Bill's father teaches Little Bill that there is no point in saying mean things to one another. You should instead defuse the situation.

I was really surprised to see that this is an Oprah's Book Club pick, but after reading it and getting the message I now see how invaluable it is.