WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN TO ME? (Sesame Street Start-To-Read Books)

By Deborah Hautzig

Book Overview

When his schoolmates laugh at him for not being able to hit the ball in a bseball game, Grover is so upset that he is mean to his friend Big Bird.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679824022
• ISBN13: 9780679824022
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Another winner from Hautzig in the Sesame Street Series!

As I've stated in several other reviews, I used to read this series of books to my much-younger adopted sisters back when they were first in print in the 80s and early 90s. Now that I have a child of my own I have been re-collecting these books to read to him. Why Are You So Mean To Me? is a story probably most parents will be able to sympathize with -- Grover goes to his school picnic with a brand-new baseball bat from his mother, and after confessing he has never played baseball before to the ever-obnoxious Truman (the same Truman from Grover Goes to School), Grover is picked last for the baseball game when Truman whines that Grover has never played before and will make his team lose. Grover tries hard to prove him wrong but loses the game for his team, while the rest of the kids on his team chime in with the tormenting Truman in ridiculing him. Grover, upset about this awful treatment from his classmates, takes out his frustration on an unsuspecting Big Bird, who is understanding about the situation and proves what a great friend he is by practicing baseball with Grover until he gets one hit, and gives him a painting as a present. The artwork is a bit weak here but the message is solid and will help children who might find themselves in this situation with the knowledge that someone, even if it's the fictitious Grover, knows what they are going through and that they do have true friends who will always care about them, and conversely it shows how much mean words can really hurt others and that you should always take great care in what you say to other people. A must-have for anyone with school-aged children.