Title: Mean Parents!
Product review: Ben does his best to "find" a friend (pet) despite his parents objections. The book goes through pages and pages of Bens parents rejecting his various requests and compromises for a pet. Ultimately Ben has to be content with feeding the pigeons that land on the ledge of his bedroom window. A no point in the book do Ben's parents give him an explanation for their no pets rule. The book could have been so much better if they had given him a reason: allergies, a landlord who doesn't allow pets, etc. Instead the book presents Ben's parents as heartless and Ben as a very lonely and depressed little boy.
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