General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Are you kidding? The part where {spoiler alert} Charlie's dad loses his poverty wage job through redundancies at the toothpaste cap factory is the very best part!

The great thing about that book is that it's the only "perfectly miserable ordinary kid discovers he's a _________ (wizard, alien with magic powers, princess)" story that every frustrated kid wants to fantasize that isn't an accident of birth, but a result of patience and Boy Scout honesty. It makes kids believe that they can be made special through something other than mistaken parentage.

Oh, I agree completely. It's a wonderful book and I read it many times as a kid. And I think he'd love the book now. It was just too much at age 4-5.