A child called "it" is a very nice story and true i felt so bad when all this happend to him.I was creying when i read this story.I jus cant belive its true.His mom abused of him, she burned him,she did everything to make his life impossible.The good thing is that at school he did have someone to take care of him.The nurse took care of him alot.He looked at the nurse as his perfect mom.The teachers where nice to him to at sholl he was safer.he didint wanto say the truth because he knew that if he told the nurse that the nurse would go to the police and he actually tought of his mom when his mom didint think of him.I have never read a story like this that ...  Read the complete review

"It" vanished for ever on 5th March 1973 with the words, "David, you're free. Your mother is never going to hurt you again." These twelve words were spoken by the Policeman who had taken the twelve-year-old Dave Pelzer away from his school. They were spoken the day after he had been thrown down the garage stairs by his mother. They were spoken on the day the staff at Thomas Edison Elementary School laid their jobs on the line to intervene to protect him, a 5th Grade student. Following a weekly inspection of his bruised body, his injuries recorded in detail by the school nurse, they contacted the Police and he was ...  Read the complete review

'A Child Called It' was the first 'white cover' book I ever read. You know what I mean - tales of child abuse, infant trauma, and tragedy, in a white covered book, usually sold in supermarkets. It'd be easy to consider the book as one of these £4, supermarket shelf tales of woe, but trust me, it is THE definitive story of a life turned around, as the author, Dave Pelzer, attained huge success with this book and went on not only to document the rest of his formative years over another two books, but also to move into the lucrative world of self-help. A Child Called It documents Dave Pelzer's childhood in the 1960s in San Francisco. Dave was the victim of an ...  Read the complete review

I read this book many years ago after a friend recommended I should read it, as she knew I would like this book. I borrowed it from her and I was instantly hooked, I can see why this book was read by so many people. The basis of the book is that Dave Pelzer (the Author) is writing about the terrible childhood he had growing up with his terribly abusive mother. Even though Dave had other siblings, he was the one who was abused and apparently hated by the mother he loved so much, whilst his father did nothing to stop her from abusing their child. The abuse was never of a sexual type, but came in the form of beatings, cruelty and neglect. Dave ...  Read the complete review

I'm not normally one to read much except for magazines, it takes a lot for me to remain interested enough to read the whole book. This is one book that I hardly put down, and I'll tell you why. The book is a tru story about a boy named Dave Pelzer. He lives in America with his mother, father and brothers. For some reason, his mother treats him differently to his brothers. She abuses him physically and mentally. She doesn't call him by his name, she calls him it and The boy. She says that he is bad and needs punishing to satisfy her sadistic needs. We read about different times where she burnt him, hits him and plays her sick games where no matter what she ...  Read the complete review