The pain and the great one / by Judy Blume ; illustrations by Irene Trivas.

By:

Blume, Judy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, 1984, c1974.Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0027111008 :

Uniform titles:

Free to be ... you and me.

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

[E] 19

LOC classification:

PZ7.B6265 Pai 1984

Summary: A six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) see each other as troublemakers and the best-loved in the family.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Juvenile Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Juvenile Easy Reader	Juvenile Easy Reader	J E BLU	Available		674891000105535

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The Pain" and "The Great One" are not their real names. But you may know their voices. When this girl, age eight, and this boy, age six, tell all about each other, they sound a lot alike. They are brother and sister and they're caught in a contest over whom Mom and Dad love most. You probably know who wins, too, in this funny, family picturebook.

Text originally appeared in: Free to be ... you and me / conceived by Marlo Thomas ; developed and edited by Carole Hart ... [et al.], c1974.

A six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) see each other as troublemakers and the best-loved in the family.

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Kirkus Book Review

How two jealous siblings feel about one another--starting with a third-grader's gripes about her first-grade brother, the Pain. Because Blume is a close student of family behavior, there's a lot here that rings true: ""At dinner he picks at his food. He's not supposed to get dessert if he doesn't eat his meat. But he always gets it anyway."" (Also: he's a slow-poke, but if she leaves without him, ""he cries"" and ""Mom gets mad at me."") When she protests that she should stay up later because she's older, her parents agree--but ""without the Pain, there's nothing to do!' Worst of all, ""the cat sleeps on the Pain's bed,"" when it's she who feeds her. The last, bottom line: ""I think they love him better than me."" Then we hear his side: ""She thinks she's great just because she can play the piano. . . . But I like my songs better even if nobody ever heard them before."" ""My sister thinks she's so great just because she can work the can opener"" (which is why she gets to feed the cat). But the bottom line is the same: ""I think they love her better than me."" The situation as depicted is particular to these years; the text is set, pretty much a phrase to a line, for easy reading. And if anyone can remove the picture-book onus, it's Blume--so this back-to-back confrontation, illustrated in the same waggish spirit, should garner appreciative recognition. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.