The Scallywags
by David Melling
Illustrated by
Genre: Picture Book Sub-Genre: Fiction
Theme: Manners/social graces, friendship, identity, motivation to change
Primary characters: The Scallywag family (a family of wolves)
Secondary characters: Their friends (the sheep, the pigs, the bears, etc.)
Awards: Although this book does not appear to have won any awards, David Melling's works have been "shortlisted" for the Kate Greenway Medal and the Smarties Book Award
Published on October 1, 2006 by Barron's Educational Series
In this book, a family of wolves has such terrible manners and rude, rowdy ways that they are finally shunned for good by all of their friends! This social exile gets them to thinking about their troubling dispositions, and together they decide that they will learn good manners. After spying on their more polite and socially adept friends for awhile, the wolves return to town. They are hardly recognizable! The other animals, however, begin to wish that they had their "old" Scallywags back. This would be an adorable book to use with younger elementary grade students, particularly kindergarteners I believe, because at that early stage in life students will just be beginning to learn about behaving politely and in an acceptable manner when they are around their friends. This would offer a humorous example of how things could go wrong if we are not all on our "best behavior"! =)
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