Review: Everybody Has Feelings, Too!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
"Little Monsters Have Feelings Too" by Kally Mayer is a study in how to properly treat other people. For the first half of the story, the rhyming text asks the question, "if you saw a little monster..." doing something, standing somewhere, or whatever, "would you..." say or do something mean to him. Then comes the big "OR...", and the second half of the book offers alternative responses that are NOT mean, but rather helpful and friendly.This story, in my opinion, does a very good job of demonstrating to children that it is much better to be friendly, than it is to be mean. Treating new, or different, children in a mean way is not all that uncommon. It can even be a distorted way to act "cool", in a misguided attempt to be accepted themselves, by other kids they probably shouldn't be hanging around with anyway. Showing the positive results of being kind to somebody who is "different" is an excellent way to make children understand they don't have to "copy" the mean kids to be popular; being nice to the new kids can make them every bit as popular.I think this is a book that every kid should have.