Beefy Goes From Bully To Buddy: Children’s book about bullying (Courage Tales) by Dagmara Sitek

Beefy Goes From Bully To Buddy: Children’s Book About Bullying by Dagmara Sitek

Even though Beefy’s team won the soccer match, he was still mad. In the locker room, he started bullying Gavin. Beefy was jealous of Gavin because he saw the attention his parents gave him. Gavin called his friends, Inaya, Loris, and Cam to help him. Inaya, Loris, and Cam made up the Super Buddies team along with their hero bot, Giorgio. The Super Buddies came to help him and Beefy started hitting Giorgio until he hurt his hand.

The Super Buddies team took Beefy home & wanted to talk to his parents, but they couldn’t find them. While looking for Beefy’s parents, they found different inventions that Beefy had made. He gave Giorgio a robot arm that can grab things. He showed them his favorite game and his best buddy in the game was a virtual goblin named Trumble.

They found items strewn around that belonged to Beefy’s mom and dad, but still couldn’t find them. Then they heard them calling from the TV. His parents needed his help because they were trapped inside of a computer game. But when Beefy pushed the button, they all were sucked into the game.

To Beefy’s surprise, they found Trumble who apparently had taken his parents because Beefy had told them they didn’t care about him. When they finally got the key from Trumble to rescue his parents, they all ran and jumped back through the TV. Beefy deleted the computer game and his parents promised they would change and spend more time with him. They started going to his games and taking an interest in his inventions. Beefy was so much happier than he’d ever been and stopped bullying. He now had real friends and enjoyed spending time with them. He even became a member of the Super Buddies team!

It is true that sometimes we don’t know what others are going through. It was very nice for Loris, Inaya and Cam to take an interest in Beefy to find out why he was so unhappy. They forgave him for his bullying and developed a friendship. Sometimes all it takes is a smile, conversation, and a little bit of interest to help brighten someone’s day. The illustrations are super colorful and make the story that much more enjoyable.