The Recess Queen

This is the best book for children, to teach them how to relate to one another. Kindness, and patience are important but accepting people for how they are and looking past some behavior to see the person is primary to making friends.

The Recess Queen is an adorable story about how mean Jean rules the playground by bullying kids. She must do everything first and the other kids obey and try to stay out of her way. The authors tells about the Queen in fun rhyming poetic form, "she'd push em and smoosh em, lollapaloosh em." Luckily the bullying situation is resolved because of one strong-willed , kind youngster named Katie Sue. When Katie Sue invites Mean Jean to jump rope with her, she is at first shocked but in the end the two are playing together happily and sharing the jump rope. This book shows that killing them with kindness is a great strategy to teach kids when dealing with the "mean." Also this book shows that sometimes people can change too when you give them a chance! Bullies can become a friend. The illustrations are vibrant and fun. Students will love all the rhyming and teachers can use the rhymes in the story as a quick review of rhyming. Your students will learn a strategy to deal with a bully as well as have fun reading this book. I am sure they will go, "Bouncity, kickity, swingity..." once they enjoy this book.

Used this in my 1st grade classroom. Shipped which, great quality, going to have it for years to come!

This is a great book for little kids and all ages really. It’s about a bully! Who doesn’t need help with them!! If you have children, or grandchildren or know a child who needs help with dealing with a bully, this is a great book with how to deal with one. It’s exceptional the way the author uses rhyming words throughout the story, to appeal to the reader be remembered. It’s sure to be a favorite!

My mom bought this for her school library. She said her kids loved it. She was super excited when she saw it on Amazon and she called me on her break to order it for her.

We really love this book and have read it over and over again. Great moral to the story as well.

I am a school social worker and read this book to students in elementary school. It was a great way to introduce bullying/conflict resolution in a way students can relate and understand. The students have been asking me when I will be back to read to them again!

Bought for use with many classrooms - this book is a great story with an important message. The actual book was hard cover and sturdy! Bright bold pages! Love this story and have shared it with many clases