Nana's Book Library

• Age 3-6
• Particulars (Out of 5):   
  • Positive role models: *****   
  • Inappropriate language:  None.
  • Sexual references:  None.
  • Alcohol:  None.  
• Reminder:  Nana’s Books are rated G.  Anyone could read them, or listen to them being read aloud.

            Once there was a little sister and a big brother who teased her.  Let’s stop right there:  don’t worry!  The big brother teases his sister by pretending to do things that he really doesn’t do.  He pretends to put tacks in her bed, eat her candy, and break an egg in her hair.  He pretends she suddenly has three eyes.  

Why does he do this?  Because he gets a reaction.  She cries.  One day, she’s busy coloring a beautiful picture when he pretends that he is locking her in her room.  “But she looked up and saw he hadn’t locked her in the room at all.  So she didn’t cry.”   

He pretends to throw her doll out the window.  “But she watched and saw he didn’t really throw her doll out at all.  So she didn’t cry.”  Nor does she cry when he tries the old “there’s a rattlesnake that’s coming to bite you” ploy.   She changes the script!

            And her big brother finds something else to do:  he colors with her, all afternoon.  “Before they knew it, it was dark, and they had lemon meringue pie for dinner.”  They become friends, and that’s much more fun than teasing any day!  

               This book was not at my local library, but it is available in used paperback and hardcover editions on Amazon, eBay, and Abebooks.  

©Janet Farrar Worthington

Note:  I am an Amazon affiliate, so if you do click a link and buy a book, I will theoretically make a small amount of money, but I’m just starting this thing, so I don’t even know how that works.   Still, full disclosure, etc.