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Grody's Not So Golden Rules
Why do kids have to follow so many rules? Everyone in Grody's life gets to tell him what to his mother, his father, his sister, his teacher. . . . He's tired of it! Determined to take matters into his own hands, Grody comes up with his own set of rules. Clean socks? Who needs 'em? Use a napkin? What's the point?
Beloved author-illustrator Nicole Rubel has created a character who will have kids howling--and maybe, just maybe, seeing the reason behind some of those awful rules grown-ups like so much.
Beloved author-illustrator Nicole Rubel has created a character who will have kids howling--and maybe, just maybe, seeing the reason behind some of those awful rules grown-ups like so much.
- GenresPicture Books
40 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2003
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September 13, 2021
Tired of rule following, Grody decides to make his own set of 14 rules. Illustrations provide visual humor to accompany the silly and predictably disastrous results of Grody's new rules.
Use at the beginning of the school year when establishing classroom expectations.
Also add to the collection of counting books.
Use at the beginning of the school year when establishing classroom expectations.
Also add to the collection of counting books.
September 2, 2013
Grody is a bad dog. He decides to live his life based on his own rules rather than the rules of his parents, his teachers, and other sundry adults.
The reader goes through each page where Grody shares one of his 'golden' rules, i.e. 'never wash your ears', 'don't listen to your teacher', etc. The pictures show him acting out these rules.
After plodding through 14 pages of Grody's 'not-so golden' rules, the final page shows the consequences for all of Grody's irresponsible rules.
My kindergartner really likes this book. He likes the simple 2 or 3 sentences per page that allows him to somewhat read along and he likes search through the illustrations for all the 'bad' things that Grody is doing.
At the end, he matches each consequence with the naughty rule that Grody followed. It is enjoyable to hear my little reader draw his own conclusions as to how Grody behaved badly.
Unfortunately, I don't particularly care for the book. I'm not a fan of the art and it's not very enlightening to trudge through all these pages of a misbehaving child. It's particularly annoying to read about Grody not following the teachers instruction. Even though the point of the book is to teach kids that there are reasons for the rules that we have in life, it's no fun to read about in this fashion. There's no joy in reading aloud all the lines when Grody is acting a brat on each page.
So, 3 stars - 2 from Mom, 4 from kid.
The reader goes through each page where Grody shares one of his 'golden' rules, i.e. 'never wash your ears', 'don't listen to your teacher', etc. The pictures show him acting out these rules.
After plodding through 14 pages of Grody's 'not-so golden' rules, the final page shows the consequences for all of Grody's irresponsible rules.
My kindergartner really likes this book. He likes the simple 2 or 3 sentences per page that allows him to somewhat read along and he likes search through the illustrations for all the 'bad' things that Grody is doing.
At the end, he matches each consequence with the naughty rule that Grody followed. It is enjoyable to hear my little reader draw his own conclusions as to how Grody behaved badly.
Unfortunately, I don't particularly care for the book. I'm not a fan of the art and it's not very enlightening to trudge through all these pages of a misbehaving child. It's particularly annoying to read about Grody not following the teachers instruction. Even though the point of the book is to teach kids that there are reasons for the rules that we have in life, it's no fun to read about in this fashion. There's no joy in reading aloud all the lines when Grody is acting a brat on each page.
So, 3 stars - 2 from Mom, 4 from kid.
August 11, 2011
I didn't really like this story.
May be a good one for boys? But I felt like it shared a whole lot of things that I wouldn't want to suggest to kids and then the moral of the story was "Don't do what Grody does or you'll end up being: smelly, overweight, messy hair, dirty, bad breath, bad grades, etc" As a kid, I probably fit half of those descriptions and I tried everything I could to follow the Golden Rules and all other rules set for me! So, in my personal opinion, I just didn't like how this book is basically telling kids that you can judge a book by it's cover.
Wondering if giving it two stars was one too many...
May be a good one for boys? But I felt like it shared a whole lot of things that I wouldn't want to suggest to kids and then the moral of the story was "Don't do what Grody does or you'll end up being: smelly, overweight, messy hair, dirty, bad breath, bad grades, etc" As a kid, I probably fit half of those descriptions and I tried everything I could to follow the Golden Rules and all other rules set for me! So, in my personal opinion, I just didn't like how this book is basically telling kids that you can judge a book by it's cover.
Wondering if giving it two stars was one too many...
February 3, 2017
I thought this book was very fun and sassy, and I'd love to read it to early elementary-aged kids. However, after seeing other reviews I suppose it's true that it kind of stigmatizes certain things (cavities, body odor) that a lot of people can't help...
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