Sentimental, but no analysis

books:


	• A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive David J. Pelzer Topeka Bindery, 1999 average customer review:based on 1905 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

awsome, sad. glad he escape

No child should have to go through this. I know the mother was mentally ill. I hope in death she is finally at rest

WOW! What a Read

This book I bought due to it being recommended by a guy that I work with. This is a page turner and it tares out your heart. There were some chapters that tore my heart out, especially the ones where his mother burned him and knifed him in the stomach. If something like this happened to anyone else it may of killed us but it gave Dave Pelzer more inner strength.My daughter and nieces have also read the books and were totally astonished. These books I believe give kids the inner strength to survive. Kids see that a person who was severly abused survived and so can they! I just can't see why a mother that carried her baby for nine months would do something like this to her own child. Why didn't anyone step in to save this child before they did. Even his own father would not help him. A must read to open your eyes to the real world and no this was not a movie but a real life event that actually took place by a mother.

for more information click here

Disturbing and real.

A true story about the third worst case of child abuse in California at a time when child abuse was not acted upon. This book was hard to put down; I read it in an evening. Mr. Pelzer tells about the brutal abuse he experienced from his mother, yet more poignant was his dad's reaction to it, or perhaps I should say failure to react. The book brought me to tears, telling of a child's survival mechanisms during the horrible abuse afforded him by his demented, cruel mother.

The Child Called It

The Child Called It is the saddest book. It makes you cry. The characters are Dave, his brothers, his crazy mom, and his dad. Dave never got food.He only got leftovers. Where Dave lived, you do not want to know. If Dave had to live with his mom, he will die. In The Child Called It, there were no adventures at all!! I like the beginning of book . My least favorite character is mom. So start reading more of it. It is good book.

for more information click here

Sentimental, but no analysis

I have never experienced such a large amount of guilt and shame over our world, until I read the memoir of 12-year-old David Pelzer. A Child Called It is a grueling and powerful autobiography written about Dave Pelzer's abusive early childhood. In most of the books written by Dave Pelzer, such as Lost Boy: A foster child's search for the love of a family, and The Privilege of Youth: A teenager's story longing for acceptance and friendship, they all resemble some form of struggling to be accepted by others and finding a true home. By far, A Child Called It may be the most disturbing book Mr. Pelzer has written. It seems as if Pelzer focuses on two different things in the book. He tries to help people realize his struggle for acceptance in his own family and also, helping people understand that they are able to overcome any type of circumstance, but falls short of providing understanding of extreme abuse or how he made his journey from "Victim to Victor."
It takes some work to get past the "this happened, then this happened, and this is how I felt about it" approach and the self-importance theme throughout the book, but the book tries ardently to provide the child perspective that we need. One of the greater obstacles to healing for males is admitting that they have been victims, especially if their perpetrator is a woman. This author has overcome that obstacle and succeeded in life by such masculine norms as joining the Air Force and receiving awards for his volunteerism. However, while personal accounts of child maltreatment provide crucial information about the realities of childhood, youngsters need insight and hope in order to digest the raw material of abuse. Since the book covers Dave Pelzer's life from age four to twelve, there were many types of abuse that can damage a child's delicate psyche, like psychological abuse. The only aspect that the book lacks is an in-depth analysis of David's psychological experience to fully grasp the experience that cannot be perceived as an outsider. I recommend this book to experience the hard cold facts of abuse but not for psychological analysis.

for more information click here

reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system.

Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love, and Pelzer is an expert witness.

for more information click here

hot or not? What's your opinion? Write a review and share your thoughts!

recommendations

Books to teach you about life
My all time favorite books
~*My Favorite Teen Books*~
Dave Pelzer
Listerz

survive

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, ...
When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When DIsaster ...
Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the ...
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on ...
In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When ...

courage

A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Into the Wild
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's ...
The Red Badge of Courage

called

A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued ...
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson Series, Book 1)
A Crazy Little Thing Called Death: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery

search for books
child called, called, child, courage, one, survive

Impressum / about us