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Title: Great fun, fascinating illustrations and good punchlines
Review: These three stories - which I remembered vividly from my own childhood - became a treasure for my own 3 y.o. In the first, Mitzi wakes early and decides to dress her baby brother and take him to visit their grandparents. Feeding, dressing, elevator, etc. She gets as far as the back seat of a cab, but she doesn't know the address, and the whole story unfolds in reverse. This story is so immediate for kids, because they think they know how to do so much and yet there are certain obstacles they still can't overcome. The other two stories are more of these iterative exercises. The pictures summon a Lower Manhattan where kids sat on stoops and stores sold gum, but the people are dressed for Nixon's re-election. The faces are a wink to the grandchildren of greenhorns.
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