Sticks and stones will break your bones, and names will sometimes hurt you! This charming circular story demonstrates how unkind words can damage self-esteem and kind ones restore it. It all starts when a snail calls the pig fat. Her remarks upset the pig so much that when she meets a rabbit, she insults him. Soon there is an epidemic of insults, one animal to the next. And since the snail started it, it's up to her to set things right, initiating a similar cycle of apologies.
Sticks and stones will break your bones, and names will sometimes hurt you! This charming circular story demonstrates how unkind words can damage self-esteem and kind ones restore it. It all starts when a snail calls the pig fat. Her remarks upset the pig so much that when she meets a rabbit, she insults him. Soon there is an epidemic of insults, one animal to the next. And since the snail started it, it's up to her to set things right, initiating a similar cycle of apologies.