"Hattie was BAD
When I say BAD, I don't mean forget-to-tidy-her-room, reading-comics-after-bedtime
kind of BAD. When I say BAD, I mean really, really BAD."
When she was young Hattie was good; then her mother dropped her on her head. Uh nope, she was bad before that happened...her brother knows! Well, okay when she was a tiny little girl she was 'quite good' but she didn't find much fun in it. So, she changed her attitude and her persona and began a life filled with dastardly deeds and escalating evildoing.
Her behavior makes parents frantic and they won't let their children have anything to do with Hattie. That, of course, leads to much loneliness and sadness for a young girl. Since she made the decision to be bad, she can surely turn the tide and be good at being good. Her demeanor is so changed that she turns her friends away once again, and ends up winning an award for good behavior. As she approaches the podium to accept her prize, a strange feeling comes over her. Not able to fight it anymore, and asked if there is anything she wants to say, Hattie has an instant and rebellious response. Parents gasp and faint, their children cheer and Hattie becomes Hattie the BAD once more.
Kids will love the humor and the allure of doing all the bad things that Hattie does. It is sure to be a popular readaloud in early years classrooms. Joe Berger creates a precocious and vulnerable young girl with a penchant for getting into trouble...from the orange paintbrush hidden behind her back to the frogs in the fridge, on the school playground and being painted orange. She has mischief on her mind and the illustrator makes us privy to all of it. What fun!
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