Alberts bad word

Elbert’s Bad Word Written by: Audrey Wood Illustrated by: Audrey and Don Wood
This story takes place one day at a very large, eventful dinner party with extravagant guest singing opera, playing adult ball games, and of course chit chatting amongst themselves. It’s the perfect place for a little boy to catch a naughty word floating in the air that he’d never heard before. The word however; was very small and snuck its way into the mouth of this little boy only to make its way out in a huge way. His mother of course punished him and the little boy knew that the little bad word was trouble. He rushed to see the wizard who baked a cake made with special, sparkly, nice words to replace the bad word. When the little boy came back to that party that same day, a huge mallet fell on his foot and instead of screaming the bad word. The little boy screamed other words that weren’t so bad. The bad word saw its defeat and fell into a deep hole in the ground never to return again to Elbert’s mouth!
This story teaches an impeccable lesson that there are always good words and bad words and appropriate and not so appropriate places for them. Good words should be used instead of bad words in light of bad situations and bad words should vanish forever. This book teaches children to use your best intentions and say good words to replace the bad ones even if you did hear a grown up use them. Strength in this book is shown through the use of magic to do good things. A lot of times magic are used in books to put spells on people or make something bad happen but in this story they use magic in a positive way which teachers and parents will enjoy! With cartoon pictures on every page depicting the plot in an adventurous way this book keeps a reader’s eyes attentive! A teacher could use this to show how a little bad word can turn into a big bad word easily and how to dispel things that children may use and shouldn’t say. This book is very fun and brings lightness to the subject that parents dread!