"Bruce Holland Rogers - Little Brother" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rogers Bruce Holland)

never really feared for him;
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he had always been strong,
"Peter!" Mommy said.
so strong.
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Mommy picked up Little Brother™, sat him
in her lap, and pressed the black button at by Elizabeth Bear
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came alive, and it wrinkled up as if he were
about to cry, but Mommy bounced him on Nilufer raised her eyes to his.
her knee and told him what a good boy he It was not what women did
was. He didn't cry after all. to men, but she was a
princess, and he was only a
"Little Brother™ isn't like your other toys,
bandit. "I want to be a
Peter," Mommy said. "You have to be extra
Witch," she said. "A Witch
careful with him, as if he were a real baby."
and not a Queen. I wish to
She put Little Brother™ down on the floor,
be not loved, but wise. Tell
and he took tottering baby steps toward
your bandit lord, if he can
Peter. "Why don't you let him help open
give me that, I might accept
your other presents?"
his gift."
So that's what Peter did. He showed Little
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Brother™ how to tear the paper and open
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the boxes. The other toys were a fire engine,
some talking books, a wagon, and lots and
lots of wooden blocks. The fire engine was