

Plus, no teacher wants to listen to all those stories about someone doing this or that wrong all the time.more This is a relatable picture book that will offer teachers and parents a way to put the clamp on behavior that is annoying and causes children to lose friends. It isn't easy, but situation by situation, his teammates help him learn the difference.
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Snitcher has seen this sort of behavior before, and she comes up with a plan to help Miles and his other classmates, but especially Miles, learn how to tell the difference between tattling and telling the teacher based on whether someone is sick, hurt or in harm's way. He just can't help but keep an eye out on what everyone else is doing and either correct them, point out what they're doing wrong, or tell the teacher.

Snitcher has seen this sort of behavior before, and she comes up with a plan to help Miles and his other classmates, but especially Miles, learn how to tell the difference between tattling and telling the teacher based on whether someone is sick, hurt or in harm's wa We've all known someone like Miles McHale or had him in one of our classes. We've all known someone like Miles McHale or had him in one of our classes. I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.įind more children's book reviews in Reviews in Chalk. I would say this is a wonderful picture book who focuses in enhance social health in kids, something important to better fit in a community, and enjoy the social experience. I immediately fell in love with the colorful illustrations, that look fluffy and so expressive. It can be difficult in some occasions to know if that would be tattling or telling, but as any other social skill, it can be learned and improved. Sometimes someone might need our help, and it is necessary to tell an adult what is going on. At the same time, deciding to never tell anything again is wrong. The story shows in funny and exaggerated examples why tattling is so annoying and also useless. Poor Miles had to learn the difference between tattling and telling the hard way. By the end of the week his team is loosing, and his friends don't want to talk to him.

He is trying hard, but sometimes it is difficult to know if he was tattling or not. The team with fewest number of tattles at the end of the week gets extra recess. Snitcher decides to start the Tattletale Battle, whith the pledge "If a friend is sick, hurt, on in harm's way, then telling someone is OK". At school he wasn't the only tattletale, but he was definitively the worst. He tattled all day long, and even during night. He is funny, and smart, but he has a big problem, he is a tattletale.
