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Good stuff; this and the Danny Dunn series are fond childhood memories. I still remember this joke from the hot air balloon race decades later: "...Harmon Muld
by ThrowawayR2 3y ago
Good stuff; this and the Danny Dunn series are fond childhood memories. I still remember this joke from the hot air balloon race decades later: "...Harmon Muldoon called his [hot air balloon] the 'Green Onion,' and it looked like one. 'I hope it springs a leek,' quipped Dinky Poore..."
- WillAdams 3y agoI had to track down a copy of _Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine_ to give to some cousins of mine who recently had kids.
- tomcam 3y agoYou rock!
- kabdib 3y agoDanny Dunn was great. Also, The Magical Flight to the Mushroom Planet and its first sequel. Read those to tatters. And the "Alvin" books (Alvin's Secret Code, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald). Then I discovered Robert Heinlein's juveniles... Our little town's library had a checked-out-book limit of six, I think. One time I just couldn't decide, and went to the counter with a stack of ten books, prepared to make a case. Instead, the librarian just smiled and stamped them all. I think I made her day.