Except William March was as unimaginative a storyteller as he was incompetent a writer so does nothing with the concept beyond the initial murder. The “pscyho kid that kills” premise might’ve been fun had there been anything more to The Bad Seed than that.

Sorry, just trying to wrangle my brain to review this garbage semi-coherently!Īwful, just awful. Could she…? DUuuuuuUUUUuuuuuhhhhh… waaaaaaaaaaaauUUGHghhhhhh! Muauarrrhghhhh! Wap wap waaaaaaap. But, the bridge between the past and why he decides to change is missing.Everyone who pisses off creepy 8 year old Rhoda dies – she couldn’t be murdering them.

It does go into some past trauma, which may help explain why he acts the way he does. The only very small issue I did have with this book is it doesn’t really explain why he wants to no longer be good. The message is fairly simple: It’s never to late to try and make a change in your life. An example of this are the pages that show all the extreme lengths of ‘bad’ that this sunflower seed goes to. But it also has very interesting illustrations to look at, which I believe are watercolor, and together the illustrations and story are displayed on the pages in a manner that helps make the story even more interesting to read and look at. First, it has clever humor that preschoolers, new readers, and adults will all enjoy. Simply put, The Bad Seed is just an awesome picture book. So, now our seed will still forget to be a good seed at times and will show up late or talk in movies, but he also now likes to say ‘thank you’ and ‘please’ and do other good seed things. But then our ‘bad’ seed decides he wants to try and be good. They all have a point because he really does do some bad things.

The other seeds all know this – some are scared of him and some just talk about him behind his seed back. How could I not? In the story we have a seed who is a very very bad seed. I loved just about every aspect of the book. Perfect for readers young and old, The Bad Seed proves that positive change is possible for each and every one of us. With Jory John’s charming and endearing text and bold expressive illustrations by Pete Oswald, here is The Bad Seed: a funny yet touching tale that reminds us of the remarkably transformative power of will, acceptance, and just being you. But what happens when one mischievous little seed changes his mind about himself, and decides that he wants to be-happy? He’s been bad since he can remember! This seed cuts in line every time, stares at everybody and never listens. He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. Thank goodness I was right – this was a very interesting book to read. Every time I would see it I would notice how interesting the book looked. I’m not sure I should admit this, but I’ve wanted to read this picture book for a while.

Novel the bad seed