Every April, in celebration of Child Abuse Prevention Month, the library is pleased to be the recipient of two donated books. The books were donated to the library by the Vicksburg Child Abuse Prevention Center. The Adult book is titled The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teacher Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence, by Barbara Coloroso. The author is an acclaimed speaker on parenting, teaching, conflict resolution and grieving who lives with her husband in Littleton, Colorado. The author uses her years of work with troubled youth to discuss the three kinds of bullying and the differences between boy and girl bullies. After identifying which type of bully your child is experiencing, Mrs. Coloroso shows parents four abilities that you should teach them in order to protect them from succumbing to bullying. The book also includes seven steps to take if your child is a bully, and how to help the bullied child heal and effectively discipline the bully. The best part of this book is the chapter on cyberbullying and a section on how to evaluate a school's antibullying policy. 
The children's selection that the CAP Center donated to the library is The Three Bully Goats by Leslie Kimmelman. This book was recently published and tells the story of Billy goat brothers Gruff, Ruff and Tuff who are bullies who rule their meadow. When they cross sweet Little Ogre's bridge and are mean to the baby animals on the other side, they are in for a surprise from Little Ogre! The book will be read at a special CAP Center storytime during the month of April, as well as other children's books that the library currently has on bullying.
Thanks again to the CAP Center for providing us with these two wonderful books that are great resources for parents and children to learn how to recognize and prevent bullying!
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