Newberry Medal winner
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Number of pages: 236
Year published: 2000
In Bud, Not buddy, we follow the life of ten-year-old Bud Cadwell, who is motherless and on the run, as he experiences hardship, fright, insecurity, and pleasure. Full of humor and wonderful characters, this is a superb book about an determined boy on an incredible journey!
It is 1936 in Flint, Michigan, and we are in the period of the Great Depression. Bud Cadwell's mother has died, and he has run away from a terrible foster family and an orphanage. Bud wants to know who his father is, and even though his momma never told him, she left a clue; flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud will stop at nothing to find this mystery man, so he hits the road and meets some friends along the way. He never will go anywhere without his treasured suitcase, which is pretty much his life. It contains the five flyers, his tobacco bag full of his rocks with strange writing on them, his only picture of his momma, his jack-knife, and his favorite blanket.
The Great Depression was a terrible time, and Bud is a black boy right in the middle of it. His momma is dead, and he only has a clue to whom his father is. I really love Bud's personality and how he sees things, because even when times are extremely hard for him, he is always funny and optimistic about it. I can't even imagine how difficult it must have been to not really know who your dad was, and to have your mother die when you were only six years old. But Bud is just so ready to face life and he always greets the hardships with some type of humor. He is even the author of "Bud Cadwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself"! I just really enjoyed his personality, and I think we could all use to be a little more like him!
This book is absolutely great, I enjoyed it so much! The humor is wonderful, I was smiling the whole time. I highly, highly recommend this book, and you really should read it!! I would would say that this book is best for ages around ten and up.
In Bud, Not buddy, we follow the life of ten-year-old Bud Cadwell, who is motherless and on the run, as he experiences hardship, fright, insecurity, and pleasure. Full of humor and wonderful characters, this is a superb book about an determined boy on an incredible journey!
It is 1936 in Flint, Michigan, and we are in the period of the Great Depression. Bud Cadwell's mother has died, and he has run away from a terrible foster family and an orphanage. Bud wants to know who his father is, and even though his momma never told him, she left a clue; flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud will stop at nothing to find this mystery man, so he hits the road and meets some friends along the way. He never will go anywhere without his treasured suitcase, which is pretty much his life. It contains the five flyers, his tobacco bag full of his rocks with strange writing on them, his only picture of his momma, his jack-knife, and his favorite blanket.
The Great Depression was a terrible time, and Bud is a black boy right in the middle of it. His momma is dead, and he only has a clue to whom his father is. I really love Bud's personality and how he sees things, because even when times are extremely hard for him, he is always funny and optimistic about it. I can't even imagine how difficult it must have been to not really know who your dad was, and to have your mother die when you were only six years old. But Bud is just so ready to face life and he always greets the hardships with some type of humor. He is even the author of "Bud Cadwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself"! I just really enjoyed his personality, and I think we could all use to be a little more like him!
This book is absolutely great, I enjoyed it so much! The humor is wonderful, I was smiling the whole time. I highly, highly recommend this book, and you really should read it!! I would would say that this book is best for ages around ten and up.
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