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The Middle-Child Blues (2009)

by Kristyn Crow(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0399247351 (ISBN13: 9780399247354)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Putnam Juvenile

review 1: To this day I still can hear Jan's whining cry "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!" bemoaning her woes of being not only Marcia’s younger sister, but also her seemingly invisible position as the middle child of the huge Brady Bunch. She’s not alone. The Brady Bunch housekeeper, Alice, is also a middle child, as are many others throughout the world. You would think that with so many middle children in this world, there would be many picture books based on this topic supporting those wee folks stuck in the middle. No, that is not the case, but then along comes Middle Child Blues by the rhythmic writer Kristyn Crow and illustrated by none other than David Catrow. Catrow’s wide-eyed, colorful, exuberant characters have graced the pages of many children’s books over the yea... morers as well as national summer reading program materials, so one may think that readers would tire of their ever expressive faces and quirky manners. Happily, the characters fit right into the beat of Crow’s story; a story which when read aloud is enjoyable to not only those with the “low-down, big-frown, sulkin’-all-around-town, bummed-out, mid-kid blues”, but also their siblings and parents as well. It’s hard to be sulkin’-all-around-town when you’re reading one of Crow’s beat filled books.
review 2: Crow and Catrow nail it with the story of Lee, who has "the low-down big-frown sulkin'-all-around-town blues" because as the middle child, he is always too big or too small or too young or too old to do what his big brother and little sister get to do! After recounting all the challenges of being in the middle, from kid's meals to kiddie park rules, Lee gets out his guitar and belts out a rocking rendition of "the middle-child-blues!" - oh yeah ... less

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