The Middle Child Blues

Author: Kristyn Crow
Title: The Middle-Child Blues
Illustrator: David Catrow
Genre: Picture book (children)
Subgenre: fiction, poem
Theme: Its not always easy being the middle child, but your special in your own way.
Primary and secondary characters: Raymond, Lee and Kate
Date of publication: 2009
Publishing company: Penguin Young Readers Group
Lee is very aggravated because he is the middle child. He has an older brother Raymond and a little sister Kate. Kate gets away with everything because she is too small to do chores. Raymond gets the best of everything, because he is the oldest. There is nothing Lee can do to get his parents attention except play his guitar. When he plays his guitar and sings the middle child blues song, he starts to get an audience. He becomes special, and gets the attention he is looking for when he plays his guitar.

This book is a very good book to stress in students that they are special, and have special talents. They may have to share their time with their siblings, but their parents and family love them just the same.