March 05, 2003

It came from the Seventies

James Lileks has pictures of the children's library in Hell.

Posted by Andrea Harris at March 5, 2003 01:46 AM
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McCarthyite!

Posted by: RJT at March 5, 2003 at 11:30 AM

The stories in that book look to have been assembled from a variety of sources, and I'm positive that at least one of them (the source of "Freckles" and "The Magic in Seven") was a reading textbook that I used in the first grade around 1975.

We were tracked into different groups according to ability, and most of the kids were using a far more elementary text called "A Duck Is A Duck." I remember wondering when my group would get around to "A Duck Is A Duck" and being baffled that it never happened.

Posted by: Matt McIrvin at March 6, 2003 at 08:14 AM