The little Brute family is not nice. Can Baby Brute change their ways?

Sister Brute has no one to love until she makes a stone doll and finds an ugly dog.

They eat sand and gravel for breakfast anmd a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one say's "please" or "thank you". Instead they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes.

From the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and invented the use of helicopters in warfare. In Vietnam, he developed a holistic strategy in stark contrast to the Army's "Search and Destroy" methods -- but when he stood up to LBJ to protest, he was punished. And yet it can be argued that all of his these accomplishments pale in comparison to what he did after World War II and again after Korea: Krulak almost single-handedly stopped the U.S. government from abolishing the Marine Corps.

Members of the Brute family, who live on a diet of stick and stone stew, suddenly find their lives changed for the better.

This is the story of the Little Brute Family my mother made up for her children, complete with drawings. They ate sand and gravel porridge in the morning and sticks and stones stew at night. Little did I know that the Brute Family was us. This book is dedicated to my mother and all those her legacy touches. My mother brought that little good feeling to our home to ensure we wouldn't remain Brutes forever.