Title: A Child Called 'It' Subtitle: One Child's Courage to Survive [UNABRIDGED] Author: Dave Pelzer(Reader) Average number of words per page: between 25 and 50 STORY: 43 readers have rated this story. Average story rating: 8.93/10.0 ILLUSTRATIONS: 43 readers have rated the illustrations. Average illustration rating: 6.5/10.0

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Story Rating 1.0 out of a possible 10.0

Book review by: Helen age: 21 Review submitted on 08/05/2002 at 19:13:39 list all 43 reviews for this book

Illustrations Rating 5.0 out of a possible 10.0

Helen writes the following about A Child Called 'It' :

This might possibly be the least well written autobiography that I have ever read- and I read a lot! Pelzer clearly still feels an enormous amount of anger in relation to his experiences which provides a dull narative which is tainted by his incredibly prevalent self pitying tone. What makes me despise Pelzer's writing further is the sickeningly "sweet" dialogue which takes place with his son at the end of this largely irritating novel. It seems as though Pelzer has used this as a comparison to demonstrate to the reader how a "normal" parent/child relationship should be, and also provide the reader with gladness that Pelzer is now okay- but all it made me do is wish that Pelzer was standing by me at the time so I could hit him hard with my copy.

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