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Boys turn on the bully and tell him he's mean. Sami in the foreground is walking away, but overhears the conversation.

TREEHOUSE  BULLY

 

This is a sweet story about an unusual defence of a little girl by a crew of little boys. Their leader (one assumes he is also the lord and master of the treehouse) refuses entry to the foreign interloper, a little girl called Sami. He ‘wins’ in the end, after his own fashion. And so does Sami.

A 12-page Reader for Grade 1, art-directed by Peter Lague, publisher for Via Afrika, Cape Town. The style is Zen Zany, one of the 21 Styles on offer.
 
Black girl, aged around 8, looking up a tree and marveling at a tree house. It is rickety but sturdy (i.e., home built, not posh shop bought). In a modest middle class suburb.
'Wow, a tree house!' says Sami.
Girl is halfway up tree house ladder. Black boy looks down from up in tree house, yelling. There are several boys, white, Indian, Muslim, Jewish (these two distinguished by traditional headwear) also in the tree house.
'Girls can’t climb trees!' yells a boy.
Frowning boy, arms folded across chest. The other boys in background, look uncomfortable. They don’t like the bully.
The boy is mean. He is a bully.
Girl walks sadly away from the tree house.
Sami is sad.
The Muslim boy stands up inside tree house.
Caleb stands up.
Boys turn on the bully and tell him he's mean. Sami in the foreground is walking away, but overhears the conversation.
Caleb points at the bully 'Hey, you are mean!' 'Yes, you are mean.' The other boys agree and point at the bully.
Girl at bottom of the tree, looking happy/relieved.
The boys stand up for Sami.
Ben is a Jewish boy. All the boys except the bully climb down from the tree house.
'Let’s go,' says Ben.
Girl and boys chatting, laughing and eating crackers. Some play hopscotch on the ground
The children share a snack. They laugh and play together.
Bully very alone and solitary in his tree house, looking grumpy.
The bully is alone!
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