Word: snores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since sound is stressed, Wenkart sentences can be odd-for example, "The song of the toot root has made the princess snore." But kids like the fancifulness more than the doggedly homely prose of ordinary primers, and as a bonus they get a sound start on correct spelling. Author Wenkart has plenty of proof that parents hunger for her products. With almost no advertising, the books now sell briskly in nearly every state. They help teach literacy-hungry preschool children, but are also being used by such topflight private schools as New York City's Brearley. Sales to date...
produced nothing but travelogues for the next six years-each one a bigger snore than the one before...
...five years of family camping (mostly weekends, I admit) solitude is harder and harder to find each year. We are so grateful for the rare areas that allow primitive camping (box toilets and a pump) and an opportunity not to hear your neighbor snore and his baby cry. Acreage is what we need more of, not hot water and electric power...