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Title: Mean, nasty, cruel, uncaring -- Just like characters on TV
Review: This is a post-TV book. Junie has no fond feelings for the new baby -- a real kid might be ambivalent, but not uncaring like this awful depiction of a kid.There is a horrible scene that made me sick to my stomach, where a "cry-baby" (in Junie's words) boy proudly shows off his crickets in Show-and-Tell. They turn out to be dead, but he thinks they're sleeping. He shakes them and says "wake up" and they fall into pieces. He cries. Now this isn't depicted as a sad event -- the tone of the book is that it's a real knee slapper that this sensitive boy cries because his loved pets are crumbling into pieces before his eyes.Really, really awful stuff. For people so jaded by TV, where everyone's nasty, angry, and insensitive. Don't buy it for your untainted child -- let them have a few years where they can have true human feelings.
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