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Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis is about a boy named Bud Caldwell who is motherless, and has no idea where his father is. Life is rough for him in the foster home(s), for he isn't treated with much respect. One day, he is sent to another foster home, and that became the final straw.
It makes perfect sense that Martin, a former educator who died in 2004, initially wrote Brown Bear as a beginning reader, says Laura Godwin, v-p and publisher of Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.