Bye Bye Pesky Fly
When Pig's peaceful, feel-good kind of day is interrupted by a Pesky Fly, he has to figure out what to do. Can he get his feel-good feelings back, and maybe even make a new friend along the way?
Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Professionals with more information on helping children deal with frustration and build positive relationships.
Lysa Mullady has been an elementary school counselor for 28 years. She is known for her engaging, enthusiastic, and creative counseling style. Her passion is to teach her students to be problem solvers by talking it out and thinking good things.
Lysa was born and raised on Long Island, where she still lives with her family and two golden-doodles. You can find her on the weekends enjoying the beach with her husband, walking the dogs and searching for beach glass, all while imagining ways to help others become the best they can be.
Janet McDonnell is an illustrator and author living in the calm outskirts of the windy city with her husband and two sons, where she loves drawing peaceful pigs and friendly flies. In addition to illustrating books, magazines, and puzzles, Janet has both taught and written for children from preschool to high school ages.
A story with hidden morals, a kind of behavioral choices sampler for kids that offers choices for dealing with annoying or frustrating situations.
—Midwest Book Review
Lysa Mullady has written an empowering book that will help children learn to handle annoying situations... Mullady's engaging and witty text wraps itself creatively around Janet McDonnell's cleverly exuberant and playful illustrations.
—Children's Books Heal
This was a very cute book that looks at friendships in a whole new way. While the friendship of these two unlikely characters is not traditional however they still learn to find friendship through their adversity. This is a great book that was a ton of fun. My daughter and I loved the new way of looking at friendships an it opened us up to talking about a lot of issues in regards to the friendships she has as well!
—Dad of Divas
This book is part of the Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Social Emotional Learning Collection. Free resources, including puzzles and word games, designed to enhance both literacy skills and socioemotional engagement of young readers
