Levy, Janice Alley Oops, illustrated by CB Decker. PICTURE BOOK.
Flashlight Press, 2005. $18.
9780972922548
J.J. Jax has been picking on the new boy Patrick at
school. When he gets home, his dad is
mad at him and tells him a story of a boy that he used to pick on when he was
in school. J.J. After dinner J.J. finds
Patrick and is first mad at him because he tattled, but the boys quickly start
commiserating with each other and find a points of mutual interest.
The idea behind this book is great – looking at bullying
from the eyes of the bully. But, its
short format leads to lots of questions and holes for me as an adult
reader. There is not enough space in a
picture to cover all of the ground presented here and do it well. It even steals the Cherokee proverb about
having two wolves inside us without any kind of attribution anywhere!
EL – OPTIONAL. Cindy,
Library Teacher
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