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This book is about sharing. I think at one point in time, all parents struggle with this problem with their children. This book isn't especially unique but the pictures are colorful and the story flows well.

I was unable to download the book, due to personal reasons, during the download time, so I never got to download to read. If you can let me download,. we will happily review asap.

When Duck shows his friend Dot the great stick he's found, she takes it away and declares it hers. He says it's a flag, she says it's a sword. Duck tries to negotiate with Dot to get her to share, but she doesn't budge until Duck threatens to tell on her for being selfish. To avoid getting in trouble, Dot agrees to trade the stick for all the other toys, but Duck tricks her and keeps everything. After they get bored playing by themselves, Duck finds a way to share the stick that leaves them both happy. A cute and funny story with a good lesson and great artwork.

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Dot and Duck are friends good friends. One day, they find a stick and disagree over what it should be used for. After much argument over what it should be, they accuse eachother of selfishness and end up playing alone, which definitely isn't much fun. Can the 2 friends sort out their differences and share?

This is a simple story with a clear message: things are better if we share. Dot and Duck find themselves in a situation that many young children will throughout their childhood and this story can be used to teach them that if they compromise and work together things can be better.

This is a story I would consider using with a small group of children to support them during disagreements, It could be used to help them see their situation from another point of view and guide them towards a solution.

I received an eARC of this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

'How Selfish!' by Clare Helen Welsh with illustrations by Olivier Tallec reunites the characters from 'How Rude!' for another funny lesson on manners.

When Dot and Duck find a stick, one sees it as a sword and the other a flag. Dot decides the stick is hers and does whatever she can to keep Duck from having it. Can these two friends find a compromise?

Just like in the previous book, these characters demonstrate a bad behavior type. The illustrations are funny, and I'd love to read this aloud to a group of toddlers. The illustrations are bright and fun.

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A sweet little book with cute illustrations featuring Dot & Duck.
A great book to read with little ones to explain & explore their feelings, emotions & social behaviour.

This book opened up a great conversation on empathy with my 2 year old. The illustrations are cute and the words allow the reader to tackle a common issue in a silly-ish way. Overall, we enjoyed it!

This book is so cute! I love the drawings. I also love how it really portrays how kids feel when someone doesn’t share with them. This is definitely a book that is great for teachers’ classrooms and for the home.

This teaches kids the benefits of sharing with others in a great way!

One day Dot and Duck find a stick, only Dot thinks it's a sword and Duck thinks it's a flag. When Dot refuses to share the new toy, she goes to any lengths to make sure Duck doesn't try to take it. How will Duck react to such selfish behavior?

How Selfish by Clare Helen Welsh and Oliver Tallec is a sweet tell about sharing and friendship. It tells the story of Duck and Dot who discover a stick while they are playing together. They are both creative, so Dot sees the stick as a sword, but Duck sees the stick as a flag. The two friends proceed to bicker and end up not playing together anymore. They both decide playing alone is boring and not as much fun, so they end up breaking the stick in two so that they can both play together and have fun. This story obviously talks about friendship and sharing, but it also shows the main characters problem solving their issue and coming up with a resolution that is a bit more complex than merely taking turns. This is the perfect time or a parent or a teacher to talk about what it means to be a friend and how friends sometimes need to compromise when playing together. I am a special education teacher and I can see this being particularly useful for helping teach social skills.

A lovely story on the importance of sharing for younger children. Two friends find a stick, they both want it. They argue and barter over who gets the stick. In the end they realise what they really want is a friend to play and share with. The stick is split in two, one part each and they enjoy their games together. Each having realised life is better when you have someone to share things with.

This delightful book will be perfect to teach your little ones an important life lesson on sharing. It is a follow up to the title "How Rude!" and from the series "Dot and Duck." The story not only touches on the main theme of sharing but also on manners, and friendship.

Duck finds a stick and brings it along when he plays with Dot. Dot grabs the stick and insists it's a sword... her sword. "Mine!" Duck says it's not a sword but a flag. The duo bicker back and forth each wanting to have their own way.

They won't give it up and both of them end up alone and sad. It's no fun to be all alone and not have a playmate to share playtime with. The two finally arrive at a compromise and solve the dilemma. The book's message is that it's more fun sharing with someone than being selfish and mean and all alone.

The colourful illustrations are very well done and featured on a white background. This book lends itself to spark conversations about problem solving and playing nicely with your friends. I highly recommend this book.

I really enjoyed this story, and the illustration style is wonderful! Unfortunately, my five year old daughter has a lot of trouble with being very selfish when it comes to sharing her twin brother, and this story really outlined the situation in a way she could understand. She could see why Duck wouldn't want to play with Dot given her selfish behaviors, and we were able to discuss how similar this story was to her own actions. I would absolutely recommend this to other parents who are struggling with a selfish child!

This seems like it should work, but it fell a little flat for me. While it probably accurately shows young children's behaviour (selfishness, being grabby, only relenting with the threat of tattling), it's a bit grating. The selfishness goes on for a bit too long, and while the duo do eventually learn that it's not much fun to have all the toys when you're stuck playing by yourself, that message seems to come a little late. Dot and Duck have already modelled some pretty nasty behaviour for the first 20 pages of the book; I would've liked to see more emphasis on the resolution, since that's what's really important here.

The pictures are okay, but nothing special. If Duck didn't have that name, I wouldn't necessarily have known that's what he was (he actually reminds me a bit of Woodstock from the Peanuts comic strip, in that his beak looks more like some sort of fleshy nose).

Overall, I don't know if I'd recommend this one. It's okay, but it seems to dwell on the bad behaviour for a little too long.

How Selfish is a soon-to-be-released word and picture book by Clare Helen Welsh and Olivier Tallec , published by Quarto Publishing Group. The book tells the story about a Duck and her friend Dot. Duck finds a stick but Dot makes away with it. duck tries to get the stick back from Dot but ends up losing all the other toys to her as well. And Dot though now has things, she learns a most difficult lesson about friendship and sharing. Beautifully illustrated and with excellent (and minimal) writing this book catches attention and manages to deliver an important message , teaching children not to be selfish. The quirky illustrations are not your run of the mill ones. They capture the child's imagination. I read the book with my 5 year old and after we were done, he went back to it to just look at the pictures. Quarto publishes fantastic books for the younger audience and I am a big fan of their Little People, Big DREAMS series which bring to life various world leaders for smaller age groups (though I wish they do come out with a similar line for preteens and so on).

This was a sweet and easy to understand book about sharing and selfishness. Docked and duck struggle in sharing their things but they realize that it’s not so much fun to play on your own. This is a great book to share with younger kids that are struggling with cooperating.

How do you teach your little ones how not to be selfish? By example and of course reading a funny story about Duck and Dot. Dot had many toys to play with and when Duck wanted to play with some of Dot's toys, the answer was no MINE! However, the story goes into reversal. Duck as all the toys and he is not sharing too. We see Duck and Dot lonely and bored because they do not have anyone to play with because of selfishness. They learn how they can share their toys and have fun doing it.

A lesson we all can learn!

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How selfish is a really great book for any younger child to read. The book is written in a fun and easy to read way with cute illustrations. I love mostly that this book teaches children a lesson about being selfish. This book would make a great addition to any elementary classrooms bookshelf.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a simple yet very funny book for children about selfishness and sharing.
After arguing over a stick which one character wants to use as a flag and the other as a sword, they fall out and both end up alone with no one to share their toys or stick with and both feel bored and sad until they make friends and find a solution to resolve their problem.
This book teaches children that sharing is much more fun than being mean and selfish with your friend.

This publisher may not be for me. This is the second, or maybe third, book by them that I've read and the stories are too moralistic and messagey for my comfort. I prefer morals and lessons to be more subtle and less hit you over the head and shove it down your throat.

That said, I do think the story will resonate with young children and the artwork will engage them. I won't recommend it for my classroom or school because of it's lack of subtlety but it will work for some parents, caregivers, and teachers.