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Title: NOT a children's book!
Review: DiCamillo is a talented author, but PLEASE know that this is not a children's book, and certainly not for the age range given -- unless reading about a four-year-old child coughing up blood and then dying seems appropriate to you. This is an intense story filled with the worst part of life -- child abuse, heartless adults, poverty, abandonment. The kind, caring people in the story are consistently victimized.That each chapter is more heartbreaking and horrifying than the last really makes me wonder what the author and publisher were thinking; this should not have been positioned as a children's book. And finally, I'm disappointed that DiCamillo so freely "borrowed" the premise from Rachel Field's classic "Hitty: Her First 100 Years" -- now that IS a book for children.
