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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Mama serves up "a sand and gravel porridge" and the family "snarls and grimaces" as they gobble it up; it's business as usual for the Brutes. Ages 6-9.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A hilarious little study in human relations." --Kansas City Star
"For sheer good fun . . . The Little Brute Family ought to become a favorite in many households." --Los Angeles Times
"For sheer good fun . . . The Little Brute Family ought to become a favorite in many households." --Los Angeles Times
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Just like many others who've reviewed this book, I had it as a child and have been searching to find another copy for my children. This is the sweetest, purest kind of story telling that transcends generations and should never go out of print (as it has)! My children appreciate this lovely tale just as much as I did. If you are fortunate enough to find a copy, you will surely appreciate these two wonderful authors.
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kindness and love transform relationships,
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How unfortunate that this book is out of print! My children loved this book. My husband and I loved this book and loved reading it aloud to our children. Now I want a copy for my grandchildren! In a delightful and humorous, uniquely Russell Hoban fashion, this book shows how kindness and love transform human relationships. The illustrations by Lillian Hoban are much loved by children and adults alike.
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This truly wonderful book should be reprinted!,
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This is a simple story in which the grumpy Brute familychanges from being cross and mean to each other to being friendly and doing things together. This transformation is effected without any preachiness - being nice and more sociable is simply more fun. The illustrations are wonderful. The Brutes don't look very brutish, with their furriness and soft colors, just bad tempered and adorably ugly. Mother Brute's messy beehive hairdo is about as scary-looking as it gets. If the badgers from A Bargain for Frances (same illustrator) had some distant feral relatives, they might look like the Brutes. It's a great book that I loved as a child, and that adults like also. The Stone Doll of Sister Brute is as good (better, actually), and Harvey's Hideout (by the same team) has a similar theme, but features muskrats. These books are also challenging to find. The Hobans' much reprinted Frances books are sweet, but the Brute family books are also wonderful creations, less mild and a lot funnier. They definitely deserve to be reprinted as well.
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- Russell Hoban/Forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children (Children's Literature and Culture) by Alida Allison in Front Matter, page 155, and page 199
- Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories by William Kilpatrick on page 78, and Back Matter
- The Kingfisher Treasury of Stories for Four Year Olds by Edward Blishen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Teaching Conflict Resolution Through Children's Literature (Grades K-2) by William J. Kreidler on page 86
- Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Michele Borba Ed.D. in Back Matter
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