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...incredulous, read again The Bobbsey Twins and Dr. Doolittle (among others...
...Name the Bobbsey Twins...
Moreover, the whole idea of with-it books for the young can easily get out of hand. Perhaps the hacks of kiddie lit are already at work on Freedom Freak-Out: Nancy Drew Infiltrates the New Left or Our Summer Vacation: The Bobbsey Twins Win the Hearts and Minds of the Peasants, or even Black Beauty, the story of a ghetto girl who becomes the belle of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association ball...
...contracts: "I shall produce X-hundred buckets of tears on screen, or else ..." His daughter Hayley Mills isn't underproductive herself, but she's vivacious enough to get away with it. Remember how she got away with Polyanna, made from the book that was so bad it made the Bobbsey Twins look good...
...time one twin substitutes for another in the courtship-naturally falling in love with the lady-and Mamma is once again solvent, the reader has come to feel the spell of a slight-prose master whose writing suggests not only Jane Austen and Angela Thirkell but perhaps the Bobbsey Twins as well...