The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo
About this book
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo is a children's book published in 1969, written by Judy Blume with illustrations by Amy Aitken. It was Blume's first published work.
It is about second-grader Freddy Dissel, a middle child who feels emotionally squashed between his older brother, Mike, and his younger sister, Ellen. He does not seem to get much attention, until he lands a role in a school play as a green kangaroo.
Subjects
- animals, fiction
- brother and sisters
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- children's books
- children's fiction
- families
- family
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- history
- humorous stories
- juvenile fiction
- kangaroos
- kangaroos, fiction
- middle-born children
- picture books
- schools
- schools, fiction
- siblings
- siblings, fiction
- tajiks
- theater
- theater, fiction