Karen Gedig Burnett
Author of Simon's Hook; A Story About Teases and Put-downs
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Karen Gedig Burnett, MFA, M.Ed., for decades has taught and refined many of the concepts presented in Choose Your Life. Her ability to create simple analogies and explanations for complex social problems benefits children and adults. She lives with her family in Northern California
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Settings: A suburban town and a park.
Theme: Family, life lesson, reality
Genre: Youth and young adult
Summary: Simon gets a bad hair cut from his sister. When he goes to the park, his friends tease and ridicule him. Simon gets sad from the teasing and goes to his grandma. After explaining the incidents to his grandmother Rose, she shows Simon ways to deal with being teased. The methods that she teaches him helps him face his friends and defend himself in a peaceful manner.
Audience: Youth –Young Adult
Curriculum ties: Developing social skills and behavior
Personal response: This was a very interesting book and a good way to introduce children to the concepts of teasing and bullying. The illustrations really does a good job of making the subject matter light instead of intense. It is important to have books such as these because they prime children for issues they have to deal with in the real world. The topic of teasing and bullying has became a problem in recent news. If there were more books out there that addressed these issue children would know how to cope, resists and defend themselves against teasing and putdowns.… (more)