When they got in fights, they didn't hold grudges for days or generations.
They got to motor their own boat ("The Tub") across the lake by themselves.
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They were already several years old when I purchased the first two, and I think Woolworth's soon thereafter replaced The Tuckers with the kind of cheesy TV tie-in books that Whitman was infamous for publishing.īut I must admit I read these first two volumes over and over and over, drawn into the drama and fun of the happy Tucker family - emotional big sister Tina, nine-year-old twins Terry (typical boy) and Merry (typical girl), family cypher Penny, and preschooler Tom who is always described as having a "deep, sober, older-than-five voice," or "a voice as deep as a well." There was just something so. this family. And months later I bought TROUBLE ON VALLEY VIEW on a rainy morning that similarly matched the illustration on the cover of the book. I think I was drawn to HERE COMES A FRIEND! because it featured the Tucker kids running barefoot across a field - perfect symbolism for summer vacation, which had just begun that afternoon for me. The design was uniform, but each had a different colored spine: brown, red, blue, yellow, etc. I just remember walking to Woolworth's on the last day of school and gripping that dollar in my fist until it got damp as I tried to decide which one of the books on display I should select. I have no idea where I got the dollar to buy the first one. Woolworth's used to sell them for a dollar - smack in the middle of the toy section. Pictured above are two of my guilty pleasures: volumes in "The Tuckers" series, written by "Jo Mendel" and published by Whitman in the early 1960s. Or sliding a vellum edition of PILGRIM'S PROGRESS off the shelf only to have Judy Blume's BLUBBER tumble out after it. Imagine picking up a first edition of ULYSSES and finding a copy of Nancy Drew's THE CLUE OF THE TAPPING HEELS wedged behind it. Every reader, no matter how serious, probably has a few "guilty pleasures" tucked away on a back shelf.
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