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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a young adult book written by Judy Blume and first published in 1972 as the first book in the Fudge series.
The story is told from the perspective of nine-year-old Peter Warren Hatcher who lives with his mother, father, and younger brother Farley Drexel Hatcher, whom everyone calls "Fudge." It describes how Peter is often annoyed at how everyone dotes over his younger brother despite all the mischief he gets into.
Personal
| Own? | Paperback. |
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| Read? | Paperback. |
| Finished | 1980s. |
If I recall correctly, my sister's grade school class read this book, and she liked it enough to convince my mother to buy the book and read it to us as a bedtime story. I remember enjoying it, but, when I re-read it as an adult, I didn't care for it. As I was reading it, I had the hypothesis that Fudge was autistic, but it wasn't explicitly described in the book because Peter was the narrator who didn't view his brother as autistic. This would explain his fits and why he gets away with such blatant disobedience. I was later disappointed to learn that Fudge is really just a horribly undisciplined brat.
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Good
- The book nicely captures the frustration felt to be a child with an obnoxious younger sibling.
- There are several funny moments in the book, like when Peter starts calling Fudge "Fang" after he loses his front teeth.
Bad
- I understand that the story is told from Peter's point of view, so his parents probably aren't as lenient with Fudge as is described, but it's still pretty infuriating when such a disobedient child isn't disciplined. Through a lot of the book, I kept thinking to myself, "punish your child you awful parents!"
Ugly
- It's not very believable that small child could swallow an entire turtle whole, not even a baby turtle, and especially not have an immediate painful stomach ache.
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