The 2010 Willow Awards
Shining Willow Nominee
You're Mean, Lily Jean
Carly and her sister Sandy are happy to have a new friend join their games. But Lily Jean changes things. She decides what they'll play, and gives all the orders. Tired of being bossed around, Carly comes up with a way to teach Lily Jean a lesson. Can her plan turn a bully into a friend?
About the Author
Frieda Wishinsky's first picture book, Oonga Boonga, was published in 1990 and voted a "Pick of the List" by the American Booksellers Association. Among chapter books, novels and nonfiction she has written, some picture books are Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone, Nothing Scares Us, Each One Special (a GG Award nominee). Please, Louise!, illustrated by Marie Louise Gay - won the 2008 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Frieda Wishinsky lives in Toronto.
This title is available in French, "Tu es mechante, Lily Ange".
About the Illustrator
Kady MacDonald Denton is an acclaimed children's book illustrator, in Canada and abroad, and is the winner of several awards, including the Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award for Til All the Stars Have Fallen, The Mr. Christie Book Award for The Story of Little Quack, and the Governor General's Award for A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. A Second Is a Hiccup, by Hazel Hutchins, and published by Scholastic, was shortlisted for the Norma Fleck Award and the R. Ross Annett Award. Kady lives with her husband in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Activity:
Before Reading: Ask the students to define bully, and bystander.
During Reading:
Add to your definition of bully. Refer back to whether or not one of the characters fits the definition of a bully.
After Reading:
Discuss with the class ways to deal with the bully, how to respond if being bullied and the role of the bystander. This will help young readers identify the difference between having fun and being bullied. Post the chart and add to it as need arises.
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