Bootsie Barker Bites

Bootsie Barker Bites is written by Barbara Bottner and illustrated by Peggy Rathmann.

Picture Book - Bullying Perspective

1st - 3rd Grade

2 out of 5 

Bootsie Barker only wants to play games in which she can bite, until her friend makes up another game.

I think that this book is fairly funny because Bootsie Barker only wants to play her way. I also thought it was funny because I think most little girls at her age can relate because they like to play the games that they want to play and not what their friends want to play. The main thing that I did not like about this book is the resolution to the bullying. I wish that the bullying would have had a better lesson. Bootsie Barker's friend made up a game in which she was the mean one and in charge in order to stop Bootsie's bullying.

I do not think that this book would not have a good place in the classroom unless you were teaching about the perspective of bullying. This would not be a good book because it teaches students the wrong way to resolve bullying.