Say Something
Peggy Moss & Lea Lyon
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2004 Tilbury House
ISBN: 0884482618

What do you do when kids tease & taunt?

Say Something is a picture book with something to say!

It's one thing to notice how your schoolmates get along, which ones are always alone, & who is always teased. It's quite another thing to be on the receiving end. So what do you do? Do you do anything?

Just what is teasing? When does humorous chatter (repartee to us grown-ups) go over the line into meanness? When does a comment about who you are, what you look like, where you come from, or how you speak, curdle into something cruel? What happens between children when the silly comments become hurtful taunts?

Coming up behind three brothers I was exposed to teasing at an early age. At school, I was often the brunt of it... until I stood up for myself, found that that changed everything, & then I began speaking up for others. So when I was raising my children I was particularly careful about teasing, & what you can do when it happens to you... or when you do it.

Say Something urges you, in scene after scene, to become aware, to test your courage, to step forward & do unto others as you would have them do unto you, especially when teasers & taunters are looking for a bit of put-down fun.

A good book for Kindergarteners thru Grade 5.

Other pages about teasing:
Bullies to Buddies
Sticks & Stones Revisited
One Less Victim.
(07/03/05)

Rebecca