• Finger Frolics

    Finger Frolics

    Finger Frolics: Fingerplays for Young Children Cromwell 1983 Submitter: [This] title caught my eye on a list of books that have not circulated in 10+ years. Funny title aside, if there is one thing I know about children’s books, it’s that young’uns don’t take kindly to incorrect depictions of dinosaurs.…

  • Where is Daddy?

    Where is Daddy?

    Where is Daddy? The Story of a Divorce Goff 1969 I will be honest in saying that these types of books (I will call them “fix your problems with a story”) are a bit problematic for me. Yes, I understand that many of these books have therapeutic value. However, they…

  • Avocado Trauma

    Avocado Trauma

    The Avocado Cookbook Bauer and Logerman 1967 I can’t decide if the pictures in black and white are a good thing or a bad thing. Especially after seeing the color photos. I am a big fan of avocados! I like them cut up plain and will add them to sandwiches,…

  • Curtains for the 1980s

    Curtains for the 1980s

    Curtains and Window Treatments Fishburn 1982 This book was just dirty. And not in a good way. Seriously, just take a nice wipe to the cover. Since COVID, I am overly concerned about visible crud on books. This reminds me of “Laura Ashley meets shabby chic” for the 1980s. Having…

  • Miracle Mineral Solution

    Miracle Mineral Solution

    Jazz Dance & Jazz Gymnastics: Including Disco Dancing Fischer-Munstermann 1978 Submitter: We had the following come in as an eBook request that I have turned down. On the outside this book looked promising, and then I got to the part about giving kids a compound that the Food and Drug…

  • Boomer Television

    Boomer Television

    TV Book The Ultimate Television Book Firemen, ed. 1977 This TV retrospective was published in the late 1970s. It covers the early days to the mid 1970s. This would have been a decent choice for a library back in the 1970s. There is a timeline that ran through the bottom…