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Dulltown, UK: Today's carefully selected adjectives are, grumpy, amissible, ostreophagous, unciform, duodenary, canicular, and prim.
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It's that cheap, battered, junk shop, charity shop, kids' (boys') book again! The Lion Annual from 1956.
Gosh, it's 66 years old - poor old thing! It has done very well though.
The front and back covers are very engaging, and are colourful too. Imagine the lad pulling this treasure out of his Christmas stocking - how he must have gasped, as he picked it up!
The reason I put bits of this book on my blog is really for the artwork, the ones from the 'comic-style' pages of panels, and the odd illustration from the written stories.
What shall we have today, this windy first morning in October? Just look at those red leaves coming off, and gathering under, the Virginia creeper!
Now, oh, what's this, on page 63?
What a great idea! Good imaginative stuff for the kids!
I like a bit of science slipped in with all the other running-about, fighting-the-bad-guys stuff.
The drawing is good too - I like the bendy labels with the words on. Bendy floating labels, that's the sort of thing that you'd have in space!
'So Professor, now that you have collected your Nobel Prize, and you are finally retiring from your great work at CERN - what was it, that made you get started, in the world of science, all those years ago'?
'Oh, I think it was a Christmas present, as a child, a book, one page had an eye-opening picture of a steam railway train, puffing through space - it was on its journey to...'
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