The Little Brute Family
by Lillian Hoban, Russell Hoban
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Author: Lillian Hoban, Russell HobanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09-25
ISBN: 0374444838
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Book Review: Why are some kids at school just plain mean?
Summary: 5 Stars
Every child wonders why certain peers are mean. This book paints the story of those unhappy families, with unhappy children, and offers the grand hope they may change! Among the Brute family, parents and children suffer a self-perpetuating attitude malignancy until a solitary "good feeling" enters the picture. When everyone gives "being nice" a try things change quickly and permanently for the better.
I WISH this book was required reading in EVERY school in America. The book shows that each and every child can be a catalyst for kindness. Fathers and Mothers aren't happy when they aren't providing for their children. Children aren't happy when their parents are miserable. Its a vicious circle. And, happy kids in every school will recognize the Brute families they encounter. However, the Hobans' message to TRY BEING NICE as a platform for uplifting and contagious change works for the Brutes, who stage a quick turn-around! One's living conditions are as much about one's attitude as about conditions.
I bet the Brutes (I mean the Nices) even planted a flower or two next to their doorstep ... together!
Summary of The Little Brute Family
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon "a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies." When he brings it home in his pocket, nothing is ever the same for the Little Brute Family.
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