This book is essentially a memoir of the author's childhood written so today's kids can see what growing up in the late 1950s/early 1960s was like. I'm not so sure the kids will be that interested in it but it certainly brought back a lot of memories for me. It is illustrated with photos of the author, her parents and grandparents as a children. There are also illustrations from the 1960s orange "Brownie Handbook" that I remembered well. The author includes the bad parts of her childhood along with the good including attending birthday parties, bad hair days, the nightmare that was gym class, learning about JFK's assassination from the school bus driver, and teachers (both good & bad). Adults might enjoy this paired with Mommy Knows Worst for a look at the horrors of our upbringing. How did we survive?
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