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In the story, Billy Bully, Billy Bully is constantly doing one mean thing after another. Each time he is mean, he looses another friend. Billy Bully realizes that he is losing all of his friends and decides to change. The moral of this story is to remind students to always be kind to others and to forgive others. Students can look up to Billy Bully because he realizes that he must be kind to all, or he may hurt their feelings and lose that friendship. Billy Bully’s animal friends forgive him for being mean, even though their feelings were hurt. At the end of the story, Billy Bully learns how to play nicely and gains all of his friends back. ( )

When Billy Bully arrives at the school playground, his animal friends are already there. Cow is enjoying a swing, horse is on the teeter totter and duck is on the slide. Within moments, Billy Bully has taken charge. He chases the others off the slide, grabs toys and he won't wait his turn. One by one, he upsets each of his classmates and loses friends.

Eventually Billy Bully discovers that every one of his classmates has run away from him. There is no one to play with.

Now Billy Bully's feeling blue,
Until - he figures out just what to do.

He says to Sheep, "It's you who won."
And now his friends are up to 1!

After counting down his friends, Billy sets to work repairing the harm he has done.

When Billy Bull learns how to play,
all his friends come back to stay.

Best suited to preschool or kindergarten age children, Billy Bully is a rhyming counting book with an important message about bullying and friendship. It includes an Afterword for parents and teachers by Ellen Jacobs, Ph.D., Clinical Social Work

Billy is a bully (and illustrated as a bull) who has problems sharing and being the boss of everyone. So he sadly loses all of his friends. Then he realizes his wrong-doings and changes his actions to gain back all of his friends.

Great story for children on bullying and making new friends. I think I'll be using this in my classroom to make a chart of how to treat people and how NOT to treat people. I think you could make it work in many different avenues in your classroom.

For younger children it's a great review of types of animals and counting. ( )