I subbed at one of my favorite schools (yes, they may all be my favorites 😂) on Friday, and the librarian left the best lesson plan ever featuring this book — QUIT CALLING ME A MONSTER by Jory John & Bob Shea. I read it to all the grades, 1st through 6th, and we had awesome discussions about bullying (and for the older kids, social media bullying) and choosing kindness. - 📚. This was such a good reminder to me that picture books can be appropriate at all ages and lesson plans can be stretched to meet the older grades’ interests. I seriously had an unbelievably good day with these kiddos and learned that The Golden Rule is still passed on! - 📚. SYNOPSIS: Floyd Peterson is so much more than shaggy purple fur and pointy monster teeth-- why can't people just see him for him? Jory John and Bob Shea have struck gold in creating a knee-slapping, read-it-again story that will start a valuable discussion about how we treat others and how it feels to be seen as "different." - 📚. 📚. 📚. #bookstagram #bookish #libraryshelves #schoollibrary #substitutelibrarian #elementaryschoolbooks #picturebooks #earlyreaders #antibullying #antibullybooks #booklr #currentread #randomhousekids https://www.instagram.com/p/B2NEg-fg6xm/?igshid=2rzxd831cf0k