The Bad Seed (The Food Group)

I would recommend this book for SEL. A wonderful read aloud. There are opportunities for valuable discussions. For elementary aged children.

Better to show in the 70s movie the bad seed This book talks all about a bad seed why he’s the bad seed what bad things he does to other people and how they talk about him behind his back. The last couple pages say how he’s trying to make improvements but he still a bad seed just not that bad. Written by someone with no educational or therapeutic background. It would be a great way to give a kid a phobia. This is a review by someone with two masters in education.

As with most kids books, you will end up reading this hundreds of times. With that in mind, the artwork is fun and unique and the story has a point - that you can choose to change your behaviour. The only strange thing is that the seed seems to be bad from PTSD of having his happy family eaten. So there's that...

This book is fantastic! Such a great story! A fun way to spread a great message!! Every child should read this regardless of age.

Love this book... very uplifting... sends a good message... that you don’t have to be perfect to be a good seed xx

I feel like this book needs a second edition, edited by someone with a background in providing trauma informed care to children from hard places. I like the idea of the book, which I believe intends to teach that there are no “bad seeds,” just “seeds” to whom bad things have happened. Unfortunately, I just don’t like how it refers to the seed as “bad.” I feel like there needs to be a teaching moment in the middle to clarify this with children—- specifically, that the bad seed wasn’t bad at all, he had just gone through some bad times and was struggling to deal with it. All that being said, my own 7 and 4 year old girls loved it, and responded well to my own trauma-informed care lesson in the middle. I’ll have to think about it more before I decide to use it with clients, as they already receive enough messages that they are “bad.”