Someday we'll Have Very Good Manners

By Harriet Ziefert

Book Overview

A manners handbook, in which a brother and sister announce all the social situations they'll handle when they're grown up. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439305047
• ISBN13: 9780439305044
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

am I crazy? I liked it!

More importantly, my 2-year-old loves it. The book essentially gives a series of examples of good manners, which the children will supposedly have when they grow up, and underneath each is an illustration of the child behaving badly in that respect. I used it as an example to teach my daughter what's good and what's not acceptable behavior. When we look at the picture of the boy pulling hair because he doesn't want to wait his turn, we talk about whether she's seen any kid pull another kid's hair, etc. and why that's not ok and why it's important to patiently wait your turn. If you want a book that teaches FOR you, this is not one you'll enjoy. It does require some dialogue with you and your kid, in my opinion. The book does end with "when we grow up we'll have good manners but for now we're just kids", and perhaps some see it as giving kids a license to act badly but I think my daughter views it as permission to be a kid and to sometimes lapse and not have the best manners she could have. She loves this book and we read it often.