Volume 5, Number 9 · December 9, 1965

Consumers' Report

By Alison Lurie

Most children's books are bought by adults just before Christmas—which is like sending children downtown to the Saturday sales to get their mother a new dress. It might fit, and then again it might not; but it would probably reflect pretty accurately what they thought mothers should look like.



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