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    Bully

    By Laura Vaccaro Seeger

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    About this ebook

    Bully doesn't have a kind word for any of his friends. When the other animals ask him to play, he responds in the way he's been taught:

    Chicken! Slow poke! You stink!

    Laura Vaccaro Seeger's bold, graphic artwork, along with her spare but powerful words, make for a tender, hilarious, and thoughtful tale. This title has Common Core connections.

    A Neal Porter Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9781466839281
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    Laura Vaccaro Seeger

    Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and the recipient of a 2008 Caldecott Honor, Theodor Seuss Geisel Honors for both 2009 and 2008, a 2007 New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, and the 2007 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book. Her books include First the Egg, The Hidden Alphabet, and Dog and Bear, among others. Raised on Long Island, New York, Seeger began drawing at two years old and never stopped. For as long as she remembers, she wanted to write picture books. She received her B.F.A. degree at the School of Fine Art and Design at SUNY Purchase in Westchester, New York, and then moved to Manhattan, where she worked as an animator, artist, and editor in the network television business. Seeger lives in Rockville Centre, Long Island, with her husband, Chris, their two sons, Drew and Dylan, and their dog, Copper. She loves painting, surfing, tennis, playing the piano, and spending time with her family. She takes long walks at the beach every day and paints in her studio every night.

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    • 4/5
      I am beginning to think Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a genius. :)
    • 5/5
      This book is geared for k-1st graders, although the concept is helpful for all ages. I like how the cover of the book has the word “Bully” in large print and has a bull standing on the letters with a bold tomato color background. The cover gives off the impression of a mean spirited bully and it’s a pleasant conundrum. I enjoy how the author uses the negative name calling words in bold print in the bubbles, also how the name calling is referred to the type of animal the bull (bully) is referring to such as the chicken, when he calls it a “CHICKEN”. I especially enjoyed the part when the bully grows larger when he continues with the insults until he fills the pages with his balloon like body and deflates. I think this part of the illustration will show children how anger grows and consumes you into someone you really are not and how you lose all self-control until you literally feel like you’re exploding. Then it’s when you come to the realization that something’s got to change in you and that you need to do it.
    • 3/5

      For the right audience, wonderfully clear and powerful - for the wrong, too simplistic and didactic.
      The best audience is a class in an educationally-sound preschool.  Receptive 3-5 year-olds, with a teacher who loves the book and the kids, can have their compassion for angry peers increased, and the angry peers can maybe have their tendencies to become bullies nipped in the bud.  

      I really liked how the image of Bully got bigger and bigger as he unleashed more and more hostility.  And the word-play is fun, sort of an inside joke to older readers.

    • 5/5
      Bully starts off as a little bull. He gets bullied by another bull. When the other farm animals offer to play with him he decides to bully them instead. He points out their biggest flaws until he is called a bully and realizes he did to them what was done to him. He apologizes and leaves with his new friends.
    • 3/5
      There is much I like about this clever, simple story but I wish there was more to it. The resolution comes to quickly and easily.
    • 5/5
      This book is very well done, both in content and illustrations. It is about a young bull named Bully, who gets bullied by a larger Bully in turn, decides to be mean and bully other smaller animals. But it has a good outcome because eventually he sees how the others view him, and he stops bullying so he can have friends. This is an excellent teaching tool especially for younger children because it deals with bullying in a way they can understand and know how to handle it best.
    • 5/5
      summary: A bull gets rejected by an older bul lso he starts being mean to others until he realizes he is being a bully. Very few words but the pictures tell a lot.Personal reflection: This would be a great book to read in school on the topic of bullying. I like the emotion illustration of the bull.Classroom use: yes I believe children need to learn young not to bully good for k-1 grade
    • 4/5
      Very simple book about a bull who is a bully. He calls all the animals names and finally the goat calls him a bully. He thinks about it and then apologizes to the other animals. They all play together. I really like this book. A very simple way to teach kids to think before you speak and about bullying.
    • 5/5
      This is such a sweet book about the ever poignant topic of Bullying. Bully is a Bull who has been bullied and in return begins to bully the other animals on the farm. When they finally let him know that he's being a bully, he feels terrible and in turn begins to play with the animals. It is written with bold illustrations and simple talking bubbles, but sends a strong message!
    • 3/5
      Duck and turtle ask the bull if he would like to play. The bull is very rude and yells at the duck and turtle that he does not want to play. The bull then goes on to take out his anger on the other animals on the farm. Each time the bull says something mean he grows until the reader can only see the bottom of the bulls hoof on the page. The goat finally stands up to the bull and calls him a bully. That makes the bull sad and he deflates back to his normal size so that he can say sorry for what he has done. This is a simple book to show the impact a bully can have. It also shows the impact a person can have when they stand up to the bully. I think this book would be geared toward very young children as it doesn't go into the concept of bullying too deeply.
    • 4/5
      A bull gets his feelings hurt so he starts being mean to others until he realizes he is being a bully. Very few words but the pictures tell a lot. This would be a great book to read in school on the topic of bullying.
    • 4/5
      A great early elementary classroom book with a moral tale. Simply styled but very expressive characters and simple backgrounds help the message stay in focus.
    • 4/5
      I thought that Bully was hilarious! I really enjoyed the puns. It also had a very good message – the bull did not like being called a bully and realized that name calling was not very nice, so he made friends instead. This book is very fast-paced, as there is only one or two words for each page turn. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is working with early readers.
    • 3/5
      This simple, well illustrated book tells the story of a bull that bullies other farm animals, until the tables have turned and he himself gets called a "bully". He quickly has a taste of his own medicine, and in turn, a change of heart, and tries to make amends with the animals that he hurt. The story ends amicably with the bull being given a second chance. What I loved most about this book was the illustrations. The book shows the bull growing bigger with each insult and each page, which in turn also indicates how small the other animals feel around him. Eventually, he is so big that he is isolated and lonely. When the bull changes his attitude, he is drawn to scale. I think this book would make a great addition to the classroom, especially during units about friendship or in lessons about anti-bullying.
    • 4/5
      Bully doesn't have a kind word for any of his friends when they asked him to play. He is mean and uses mean words just the way he has been taught He uses the words Chicken! Slow poke! You stink! It is a great way to teach children about Being bullied or being a bully.
    • 5/5
      Another great play on words and a cute intro to teaching kids about what it is to be a bully. In schools today there is a huge anti bully campaign going on and we stress this every day. I have not yet read this to any students but I think it would be a good one. I thought the illustrations were just ok, but the message was more important. The young bull began to discover what he was doing and the reader could use this book as an example. I enjoyed reading this a lot.
    • 5/5
      I really liked this book. The words were few, but the message was very powerful about bullying. It is such a problem in our schools and sometimes its a hard subject to approach if we don’t know how to relate the issues the children are going through. I think this book does that perfectly. The book begins before the title page (which is a nice departure and a clever touch) with the big gray bull telling the brown bull to go away. When the brown bull’s turtle, fly, goat, and skunk friends all ask him if he wants to play, he has only mean things to say to them. When the goat calls him out, he realizes that he is being a bully and apologizes and asks them to play. They say okay and are good friends. Yey! The end.