Rumors
Contributor's
Form (list #261)
- ?? The Rainbow Fish and the Big
Blue Whale* to lead a discussion on rumors & the harmful
things they do...how everyone
- Cosby, Bill. The Meanest Thing to
Say. It's about a new boy in school who entices the others to say
mean things about each other. Everyone is miserable until they
find a way to turn this off. Also great pictures. ISBN
0-590-13754-9 Scholastic Inc/Cartwheel Books.
- Estes. The Hundred Dresses (an old
story with an important message!).It is very powerful about
children being cruel and then discovering a secret after the child
moves away.
- Hines, Anna Grossnickle. Tell me
Your Best thing
- Rothenberg, Joan. Yettele's
Feathers (Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, c. 1996, $4.95) which
is a Jewish folktale (there are other versions) in which Yettele
is spreading tales based on what she hears, making up other parts
she didn't hear, and hurting feelings and reputations. Soon, no
one wants anything to do with her so she visits the rabbi with her
problem. Why doesn't anyone want to hear her great stories any
more? The rabbi has her cut the top off a plump pillow and carry
it to his house. She can't stop feathers blowing out and
scattering everywhere along the way. He tells her she must now go
out and recover all those feather and put them back in. Of course
she returns and tells him it was impossible and he tells her: "And
so it is with those stories of yours, my dear Yettele. Once the
words leave your lips, they are as impossible to put back as those
feathers."
- St. John, Liza, Michael Krone
(Illustrator), Abby's wish.
- Van Allsburg, Chris books just
might help deal with the problem you outlined. Like The Stranger;
Two Bad Mice; The Wreck of the Zephyr; or especially The Strange
Tale (or whatever) of Harrison Burdick.
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