I
asked Grace Greene, our Vermont State Children’s Librarian,
if she would put together a list of “Bully Books”…Look
for these books at your library. Print this list.
Pearson, Tracey Pearson MYRTLE Farrar,
Straus & Giroux
2004
Bottner, Barbara BOOTSIE BATKER BITES Putnam, 1992
Caple, Kathy THE WIMP Houghton, 1994
Caseley, Judith BULLY Greenwillow, 2001
Christelow, Eileen JEROME CAMPS OUT Clarion, 1998
Dunbar, Joyce A CAKE FOR BARNEY Orchard, 1998
Howe, James PINKY AND REX AND THE BULLY Atheneum,
1996
McCain, Becky Ray NOBODY KNEW WHAT TO DO Whitman,
2001
(“This
is very didactic, but would be useful as a discussion starter in a classroom.”)
Meddaugh, Susan MARTHA WALKS THE DOG Houghton,
1998
(About a dog who
is a bull. Grace feels that it is important to have self-help books
for dogs.)
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds THE KING OF THE PLAYGROUND Atheneum,
1991
O’Neill, Alexis THE RECESS QUEEN Scholastic,
2002