The Great Snowball Escapade by J.D. Holiday

Book Garden Publishing, 2010
978-0-9818614-2-5
$5.99 US
Ages: 6 to 8
Rating: 4 stars

Synopsis:
Bud was very mean to Wil at all times. Bud was irritated by everything that Wil did. Wil constantly upset Bud, and he put her down. No one would take her side of the story either, not even her mother. It got so bad that she wanted to go and live with her grandmother instead of putting up with Bud. But her mother wouldn't allow it.

Wil's Mom said that he was mean because he was hurting. He wasn't a bad kid, just going through a lot of changes. Wil was upset that no one was taking her side. She thought that nothing would ever change about her predicament until she was stuck with Bud during a few snow days. Can they reconcile their differences and live in harmony?

Overall Thoughts:
This is a great book about how to deal with mean siblings and kids. It offers great lessons about how to cope with bullying-types of behaviour and mean kids. These are important lessons to learn. Siblings can have a difficult time getting along. Many kids will be able to relate to the issues in this book.

About the author: J.D. Holiday is the author and illustrator of two children's books: Janoose the Goose, picture book and a chapter book for six to eight year olds, THE GREAT SNOWBALL ESCAPADE. A chapbook of her short stories called, Trespasses was published in 1994 and she has had short stories printed in literary magazines and numerous articles about writing and publishing published. She is a member of both The Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators, (SCBWI) and Small Publishers of North America, (SPAN.) J.D. Holiday lives in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania.

VS Grenier, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of SFC, is an award-winning editor and author, who was voted one of the Top Ten Editors in the Preditors and Editors Poll in 2007 & 2008. Grenier is a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature and is a member of the League of Utah Writers, SCBWI and Musing Our Children.

Websites:

Author site http://vsgrenier.com/

Company Site http://storiesforchildrenpublishing.com/

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