A Child Called "It" Review

Title of the Book: A Child "called It"  Author: Number of Pages: 180  Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Review: You’ll really appreciate your mom after reading A Child Called It By David pelzer, because this book hits you right in the feels. The book opens with David going to school bruised from his mother's abuse and the nurse noticed, after getting the police officer david was taken to the station and told “She will never hurt you again”. The book then goes to the beginning of it all, Dave talks about his mother’s cooking, and family trips before she began to drink. This book makes you feel small right off the bat, making you feel like david, getting every beating along with him.

As the book progresses, things don't get any better, graphically describing the harsh and unwarranted “Punishments”  for being a “Bad Boy”, for instance making him repeat the second grade, and wear the same clothes to school every day, for years. The only glimpse of hope in this book is that this poor little child can muster the will to survive from the scraps of esteem left from his mother.

His father is hardly present, he learned not to help Dave when he gave him some Paint-by-Numbers for Christmas, and Catherine threw a fit at him. She begins withholding food, making him eat his brothers left out cereal from that morning, and eventually if caught eating, he would be made to vomit it up, and eat it while she and his brothers watched. It's really a heart breaker when his dad refuses to help him, not even give him food, when he begs for help. It's unthinkable how a parent can refuse their child begging for food.

Things get worse when he is forced out of his room and into an old army cot in the garage.he had to live like that until he was 12, abused for six years by his mother and “Mothers lil Nazi” as he would call his brother, who she often allow in on the punishment. Honestly I would only recommend this book to parents to give to their spoiled little brat who thinks his life sucks because he has responsibilities.