Review: No passion or conviction
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
A lukewarm book featuring cute illustrations of dogs, cats, owls, other animals and a tepid story about bullying.  Bullying is a hot topic that has the potential to easily ignite authors and readers, but this book fails to ignite any passion. It conveys a mushy milk-toast anti-bulling message with absolutely no passion or conviction.I tried to enlarge the tiny font several different ways without any success. This tiny font suggests that readers are being discouraged from reading this book. If any readers of this book are able to enlarge this font, please comment on this review and report the exact successful adjustments made.An owl advises Casey and Bella to tell an adult right away if they encounter a bully. The bully dog, Roscoe, a Doberman pincher, continues being rude to them, so they decide to confront the bully dog themselves and only tell on him if he continues being mean and rude to them. When they confront Roscoe he cries and says he is sorry. Then Roscoe goes home with Casey and Bella and he becomes friends with them.Who would not want this tell-on-them anti-bullying message to get widespread attention? People and groups who use bullying to enforce their rules. Gangs which rule by keeping secrets. They do not want anyone to tell and possibly expose the secrets of the gang. This book seems to be a gesture made by a gang that wants to appear to be a protector of children, so they hide behind an anti-bullying message which they obviously do not want people to really read, It seems like the author actually wants to discourage telling on anyone.