Start Reading Lucy And The Bully Crafted By Claire Alexander Released As Bound Copy

is good at drawing and making things at school, But there's a bully at school, and he's very mean to Lucy, She can't tell anyone the bully rips her books and breaks her things, because he told her not toor else! What can Lucy do I liked that it's not preachy or condescending.
It's a decent story, even though it has an agenda, Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that neatly in real life, Bullies don't always repent and it's often not a good idea to put the victim in the position of being the peacemaker.
But I don't know that you could write a children's book about that, I don't completely agree with this book but emmers loves it I would read this book allowed to my class around the first day of school and throughout the school year if I find that there is bullying going on in the classroom.
I would read this so the students understand that bullying is wrong, I would want to create a safe environment in my class where students do not feel threatened by others, We would have a discussion after the book is read about the things that can be done to stop the bullying, Great book to read if a child is having a problem with a bully! Lucy was getting bullied so she told her teacher and the bully stopped being mean.
Then they ended up being friends! This is a good way to handle bullies because Lucy was not mean back, which is what most kids think you are supposed to do.
I actually used the code in the book on the AVwebsite and had it read to me, A very cool feature, but I don't think that kids would realize this feature is available without help, Maybe I can do a display of all the books in our collection that have this available and post with the instructions.
Or include in a listening center, Really cute illustrations and sweet main character help this book on bullying, despite its extremely didactic treatment, Useful book to help kids understand and counter bullies in their classroom, Part of a series. This book is a great book for young children to read if they are faced with a bully, The authors pictures and words flowed with the story, and gave the reader insight to what other characters were thinking, I also love how this book shows us through Lucy's character responds to the bully after the intervention, In the end they become friends,
I like the message in this bookLucy gets bullied, she's afraid to tell, eventually she tells after an entire week, Mom calls teacher, teacher talks to bully Tommy and Tommy's mom.
Lucy and Tommy work it out, They're friends at the end, Cool.

BUT the editors and author really screwed up, in my opinion, Lucy is a little white lamb, and Tommy is a big dark bull, The teacher and all of the other students various animals are white, other than the pink pig, Don't make the one "bad" kid dark if no one else in the book is, It perpetuates racial stereotypes, at least on a subconscious level,

This book also plays into gender stereotypes, where only the moms are involved with the discipline and parenting, and the bully is a boy.
Lucy is very good at drawing, everyone asks her to draw them a picture, except for Tommy, the class bully, Tommy does all kind of mean things to Lucy, He stomps her blackbird model, breaks her pencils, and crumples her pictures, She doesn't tell her mom right away, and when she does, she is worried what Tommy will do, At school the next day, Tommy looks very upset, Lucy feels bad for him and decides to be nice to him, In the end, they become friends again, If only bullying was this easily resolved, This book is typically bright and colourful and interesting for children, dealing with the hot topic of bullying and how it affects the victim.
sitelinkWhat I appreciated most about this book is that it also dealt with how the bully feels, too, which is something I think is overlooked in this topic.
I do not condone the actions of a bully, but I believe that merely punishing and alienating them serves no purpose but to make them worse.
What makes them a bully How can the cycle be broken

In this book, once Tommy, the bully in question, is punished for his actions and Lucy no longer fears him, she starts to notice how sad and lonely he is and approaches him.
In the end, he apologizes, and she forgives him,

While the book didn't specify why Tommy was mean to Lucy, the girls and I were able to go back through it, discuss and infer possible reasons.
In fact, this book inspired a lot of discussion about bullying, without feeling too contrived or preachy,

I used this book to talk about bullying withnd graders, They had a lot of background knowledge but this book served as a great jumping off point for our discussion, At first, I didn't really like how the bully seems to 'get away' with this but after hearing some of my students comments "my dad told me that lots of the time a bully is lonely and they think they won't be lonely anymore if they make someone else lonely" and another user's comment about the inclusion of the bully's feelings made me change my mind a bit.
A nice book to create a good discussion with school aged children, Lucy has a rough time at school because she is being bullied by Tommy the cow who is just plain mean, He seems to ruin everything Lucy works on or tries to do, For a while, Lucy hides the fact that she is being bullied but finally explains what is going on to her mom.
Once Lucy realizes she has more power to resist and deal with the bully than she originally knew, she can move forward.
She even finds a way to include her bully in some activities, Highly recommend it for classrooms to hear and discuss, There is an important page at the beginning of the book that explains what bullying is and how to help students work it out.
Highly recommended for Grades KI really liked this book, One of the reasons was because I felt for both Lucy and Tommy the bully, Not very often in a story about a bully will you end up feeling sorry for them and feeling the hurt that they too are going through.
This story takes you to a new direction of kids that are being bullied and helps you to see maybe why someone bullies others.
In this case Tommy felt like noone ever gave him credit for his artwork, and maybe they didn't, I love books that teach lessons and I think this book could teach children to treat everyone fairly and equally and that maybe

people lash out because they feel left out.



Learning Experience: Each child writes down a time where maybe they felt left out,

Then they share it with the person next to then and tell them how that made eachother feel, Then they write down what they can do to not let people feel left out and throw it into the caring box.
Tommy is always destroying Lucy's art projects and picking on her, Lucy is too afraid to say anything to an adult until one day, her mother notices one of her projects that has been destroyed.
She finally admits what is going on and the adults help remedy the situation,

A good book to read to younger students to discuss bullying and friendship, Lucy even offers an olive branch to Tommy after all is said and done, Great book about bullying. Although I think it would have hit home more so if it was based off real people but still got the point across with my class Use to teach the effects of bullying and the importance of forgiveness.
This starts out with a note to parents and teachers about bullying, As a parent of children inst andth grades, this feels like a fluffy version of bullying in younger grades, The girl being bullied had a mother who figured out that something was wrong which doesn't always happen and immediately went to the teacher.
The very next day the bully went to school with his mother, It doesn't say what happened, Did the bully apologize to the victim It didn't sound like it, Did the bully get threatened by the principal It didn't stay, Instead it showed the bully being sad and quiet and the victim taking the high road and complimenting him on a drawing.
Suddenly they are friends. If you're reading this to a child who is being bullied, they might have their hopes dashed if they don't have the same ending in real life.
Gag. A sappy sweet, overly simple look at bullying, I would almost guarantee that the writer was never bullied as a child, All the adults work together to make things better for the child, instantly seeing that something is wrong and doing something about it.
The bully is just misunderstood and not a junior psychopath or and abuse victim at home or anything, Yes, I get that this is a kids book but it's a kids book that is supposed to teach a lesson to victims and it does so badly.
I hate this book, sorry,

Yes, I and my siblings were bullied as children, There are no easy answers to this problem Lucy has trouble with Tommy, who bullies her at school relentlessly, Her mother notices the change in Lucy, and once she finds out she calls the school to let the teacher know what is occurring.
The teacher in turn call Tommy's mother, and the issues are resolved, and Lucy and Tommy become friends, Claire was born in Bath, Wiltshire and moved to Kent when she was six, she has always loved drawing from an early age and remembers being asked by her school mates to draw rabbits for them! After school she studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury where she achieved a BA degree in Painting.
She moved to London inand stumbled through many different jobs until she studied childrens illustration at Putney School of Art, Here Claire produced her first dummy book for Small Florence, which was then published and started her dream career as an author illustrator.
InClaire wrote her own course on writing and illustrating picture books which she has been teaching ever since, and now at the House of Illustrat Claire was born in Bath, Wiltshire and moved to Kent when she was six.
she has always loved drawing from an early age and remembers being asked by her school mates to draw rabbits for them! After school she studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury where she achieved a BA degree in Painting.
She moved to London inand stumbled through many different jobs until she studied children's illustration at Putney School of Art, Here Claire produced her first dummy book for Small Florence, which was then published and started her dream career as an author illustrator.
InClaire wrote her own course on writing and illustrating picture books which she has been teaching ever since, and now at the House of Illustration.
She regularly visits schools and enjoys drawing for children, Claire's new title 'The Best Bit of Daddy's Day' will be published in June, 'Monkey and the Little One' was shortlisted for theJunior Design Awards and listed as one of the top ten best new picture books during Independent Book Sellers Week.
'Back to Front and Upside Down' won theSchneider Family Book Award from the American Libraries Associataion, The award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
'Lucy and the Bully' won thePaterson Prize for Young People and 'Small Florence' was short listed for theMad About Books Stockport Schools' Book Award.
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