I wonder if parents reading this book aloud to their children in the 50s got a laugh seeing these things in print. Now with the power of the Internet they are just a quick Googling away. They drop lots of references to fictional characters or real people or real publications that just sailed right over my head when I read this before. These children are of course fictional children written by an adult. I feel almost like it's going back three generations and that's pretty wild. Rereading them now as an adult the book is a lot shorter than I remember and of course it reads like a book written in the 50s about life in the 20s because that's exactly what it is. Some of the parts really stuck with me and I remember hunting down the rest of the series and enjoying most of them. I read this book as a kid because my parents had read this book as a kid (it would have just been released for them).
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