This is a picture book that should be taught and talked about. Suddenly, his tattling catches up with him and he grows a longer, yellow and purple spotted tongue. In the story, this is learned through the main character Josh who loves to tattle on everyone and everything around him. In addition, it goes to show that you will often lose or not gain friends if you tattle. This books reveals the how there are consequences for tattling on others. National Center for Youth Issues, 2005, 32 pgs., Genre: Fiction, Grade level: 1-2, GR level: P, Lexile level: 610LĪ Bad Case of Tattle Tongue is a wonderful picture book due to its creative but effective life lesson. Someone should have given this aspect a second thought and maybe revised it to be a better overall message for children. Its not a great message to give children that they can't trust their parents but they can trust someone who sneaks into their bedroom at night. The other thing that I find troubling is that the mother's advice does not help him, but actually makes things worse by making him afraid to tell when he should be telling, and the mysterious visitor sets him straight. Although it may have been a dream, this isn't explicitly said and the implication is that his teacher sneaks into his bedroom at night and 'helps' him. The Tattle Prince that comes to visit Josh at night and teaches him the tattling rules turns out to be his teacher in some kind of secret identity. Still, there's a couple of things that bother me. It absolutely does its intended purpose so I do recommend it. It is a wonderful way to teach children when it is ok to tell on someone and when it is tattling to tell on someone.
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