They're listed as the publisher of 1,503 works w/ 951 eBooks available for free thru the Open Library. On the Internet Archive's Open Library site ( ) they're listed as having started publishing in 1600 & as still publishing today. I'd more or less forgotten about them but I had quite a few bks that they published when I was a child. This was published by Scholastic Book Services. There's an 'American-as-apple-pie' quality to them that's like Norman Rockwell or Grant Wood except with more of a sense of humor & a quirkier, gentler outlook.
They were done by the author, I appreciate his multi-talentedness, I appreciate that the illustrations were exactly what he wanted for the stories. I can easily see why I loved it so much as a child. After all, I probably 1st read it about 57 yrs ago. It was affordable for me & it's a bk I loved as a kid that I'd more or less forgotten about.
My friend Karen Lillis was selling bks at my neighborhood's annual arts fair & I wanted to support her by buying at least one bk. WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME CYNICAL ADULT PERSPECTIVES THAT SOME PARENTS MIGHT WANT TO SHELTER THEIR KIDS FROM. By tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - August 26, 2018
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