Please Don't Say An X Word - Nikola-Lisa, W.
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Artfully designed in black and white using abstracted portions of enlarged letterforms, Please Don't Say An X Word offers a jumping off point for that all-important discussion about verbal abuse and bullying with upper elementary and middle school students. But first, what is an x word? In math, "x" stands for a missing quantity, as in the equation 2(x) = 4, where x equals 2. And so it is in this book, where "x words" stand for all the "bad, angry, hurtful words" we use to denigrate others in the heat of an argument. Using just the right amount of humor and thoughtfulness, W. Nikola-Lisa,…mehr

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Artfully designed in black and white using abstracted portions of enlarged letterforms, Please Don't Say An X Word offers a jumping off point for that all-important discussion about verbal abuse and bullying with upper elementary and middle school students. But first, what is an x word? In math, "x" stands for a missing quantity, as in the equation 2(x) = 4, where x equals 2. And so it is in this book, where "x words" stand for all the "bad, angry, hurtful words" we use to denigrate others in the heat of an argument. Using just the right amount of humor and thoughtfulness, W. Nikola-Lisa, author of the award-winning Bein' With You This Way, urges us to reflect on how we talk to each other, at the same time encouraging us to explore the incredible beauty and richness of language.
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Professor Emeritus at National-Louis University in Chicago, and a popular children's book author and storyteller in his own right, W. Nikola-Lisa is the author of 35 books, including Ichiro and the Great Mountain, Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: Astrology for the Curious-Minded, and the Christopher award-winning How We Are Smart: A Multicultural Approach to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Along with his creative writing, Mr. Nikola-Lisa has published numerous articles on various facets of children's literature for the professional literature. A past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, Mr. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, drawing upon the author's past research at the de Grummond Collection and recent reflections on the nature of play, creativity, and the literary imagination.