Books for Parents and Educators
Books for Children
 

Books for Parents and Educators
All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Can Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents, Peter L. Benson (Jossey-Bass, 1997)

Bullies and Victims: Helping Your Child Through the Schoolyard Battlefield, SuEllen Fried and Paula Fried (M. Evans and Co., 1996)

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents, Jane Bluestein, PhD

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman (Bantam, 1992)

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Rachel Simmons (Harvest Books, 2003)

You Can’t Say You Can’t Play, V. Paley (Harvard University Press, 1992)

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, Rosalind Wiseman (Three Rivers Press, 2003)

Books for Children
The 100 Dresses, Elinor Estes (Harcourt Brace, 1944)

Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain, Trevor Romain (Free Spirit Publishing, 1997)

The Bully of Barkham Street, Mary Stolz (Harper and Row, 1967)
The story of an overweight, 11-year-old bully whose efforts to reform his behavior meet with continued failure until his performance playing a bugle at a school assembly, a revealing argument with his sister, and a lost fight help him change both feelings and thoughts.

Bully on the Bus, Carl W. Bosch and Rebekah Strecker (Parenting Press, 1988)

Charlie the Caterpillar, Dom Deluise (Aladdin, 1993)
A caterpillar is rejected by various groups of animals, until he achieves his beautiful wings and is able to befriend a similarly unhappy caterpillar.

Crow Boy, Taro Yashima (Scholastic, 1965)

The Dog on Barkham Street, Mary Stolz (Harper and Row, 1960)
Uncle Josh and Edward deal with the bully next door and convince Edward’s parents that he is old enough to have a dog.

How Kind! Mary Murphy (Candlewick Press, 2002)
When Hen gives Pig an egg, she sets off a chain of events that brings kindness to the whole farm.

Loud Mouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully, Nancy Carlson (Carolrhoda Books, 1983)

Out of Control, Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow Junior Books, 1993)

The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister (Nord-Sud Verlag, 1992)
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, Marcus Pfister (Nord-Sud Verlad, 1998)
When a big blue whale comes to live near the reef, there is a misunderstanding between him and Rainbow Fish and his friends that leaves everyone very unhappy and hungry.

Rainbow Fish to the Rescue!, Marcus Pfister (Nord-Sud Verlag, 1995)
Although his friends want to ignore the new striped fish in their midst, Rainbow Fish decides to help him when a shark attacks.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (Harpercollins, 1977)
A black family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination that the children don’t understand.