Being mean means that you are offensive, selfish, as well as accommodating, nasty or malicious. A mean person is often small-minded or ignoble, contemptible and despicable. If you do not want to be a mean person then you should be a nice person. Being nice means you are pleasing; agreeable and also delightful, pleasant, kind, always nice to strangers, and that you follow the 'Golden Rule, ' which is "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, knows that no one can be perfect; but she also believes with all her heart that everyone should at least try to be nice most of the time. This is why she wrote this 'learn to read' book on the subject of mean people, to open the discussion. William Shakespeare wrote, "To be or not to be, that is the question." The question everyone needs to ask is whether they want to be mean or nice, and our author votes for nice! Practice your reading kills through word recognition, word repetition and rhyme as you read this book, and then watch the free music video that goes along with this book on the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel.