stinamoore1971 's review for:

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

3.0

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Read this along with my daughter for her summer reading project. The author writes as if he were the main character, a 10 year old depression era boy. He uses such terms as "human beans" rather than "human beings". This is probably not a concern for most, however, my daughter has been diagnosed with dyslexia and we are struggling with spelling. I would have preferred to see an author of books geared towards children to either write items such as this correctly, or at least self correct later in the context of the book.

All in all, however, I did enjoy the book. I really like the ending since we learn why the main character's mother followed a particular musical group.