Title: Depressing
Product review: I got this book for my son at a garage sale because his name is Ben and the title sounded promising. This book is horrible. Ben is a lonely boy who asks for a pet and his cruel parents deny him this pleasure as well as giving him no rational explanation as to why he can't have a pet. At one point Ben gets sick and the doctor tells him that he has a bug. Ben, the fatalistic child, proclaims that "it has come to keep me company."I will now kill myself.In the end he is allowed to feed a pigeon crumbs on his windowsill and decides that this will suffice. This is a tale of a child with a broken spirit. After I read this to my son I thought "what is wrong with this author?" The title page says " by Anne-Marie Chapouton, Translated by Andrea Mernan." I get it now, it's French.
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