This children's book is written by Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison. It tells the story of a child's observations of all of the mean people in his life. Mean people include people of types-- tall, short, male, female, young and old have all been mean to the young child. He comments on how the mean people frown mostly but, ironically, even smile sometimes when they are being mean. The mean people in his life mostly include the people he should be able to trust the most, his family. The child's story is heartbreaking as he describes all of the negativity in his life. Miraculously, he overcomes all of the negativity in his life and decides in the end that he is going to be happy and smile, no matter how the "mean people" treat him.
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