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The TV Kid
Betsy Cromer Byars was born in1928. She graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. While she was in graduate school, she began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post and Look. Byars writes novels for young people. She is an expert at tapping in to the pain of adolescence, using bits of her own experience to flavor her characters. She is author of more than 60 books and has won numerous awards. Her book about a 14-year-old girl and her mentally retarded brother, The Summer of the Swans (1970), won the Newberry Award as the most distinguished contribution to children's literature that year. Other books include The 18th Emergency (1973), The TV Kid (1976), and After the Goat Man (1995). Betsy Byars died on February 26,2020 at the age of 91. Richard Cuffari was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 2, 1925. He won numerous awards for his art work while a student at Madison High School. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1949. He illustrated his first children's book, The Wind in the Willows, in 1966. During his lifetime, he illustrated over 200 children's books, specializing in historical and non-fiction books. He received several awards including the Society of Illustrators' Citation of Me
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The Cartoonist
On the other... absolutely NO ONE in the book seems to like his art: Alfie's mother doesn't understand his comic (blaming the poor lighting in their house), his teacher (understandably) withholds any encouragement since he drew a comic during math class, and even his friend "Tree"* seems more annoyed that Alfie would rather "study"** than do anything with him.
The central conflict is between Alfie and reality, given he wants to spend all his time cartooning but reality wants him to at least spend some time not failing math, say. The second layer of conflict is between Alfie and his mother in particular, who seems a little too dependent on family in the wake of her husband's (Alfie's father's) death, and the fact that their relative poverty means they not only have to live with three generations under one roof (including "Pap," Alfie's ornery grandfather) but also with not a lot of relief from each other—hence Alfie's regular retreat into the attic, his sanctuary. The third act conflict is when Bubba, Alfie's older brother and his mother's golden child, is fired from his job and—at least in Alfie's mother's mind—is bringing his wife and child to move in wit