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Danny Dunn #8
Danny Dunn Time Traveller
Book by Williams, Jay
135 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1964
About the author
Jay Williams
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Jay Williams (May 31, 1914–July 12, 1978) was an American author born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Max and Lillian Jacobson. He cited the experience of growing up as the son of a vaudeville show producer as leading him to pursue his acting career as early as college. Between 1931 and 1934 he attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University where he took part in amateur theatrical productions.
Out of school and out of work during the end of the Depression, he worked as a comedian on the upstate New York Borscht Belt circuit. From 1936 until 1941, Jay Williams worked as a press agent for Dwight Deere Winman, Jed Harris and the Hollywood Theatre Alliance. And even though he played a feature role in the Cannes prize winning film, The Little Fugitive produced in 1953, he turned his attention to writing as a full time career after his discharge from the Army in 1945. He was the recipient of the Purple Heart. While serving in the Army he published his first book, The Stolen Oracle, in 1943.
Williams may be best-known for his young adult "Danny Dunn" science fiction/fantasy series which he co-authored with Raymond Abrashkin. Though Abrashkin died in 1960, he is listed as co-author of all 15 books of this series, which continued from 1956 until 1977. Jay Williams also wrote mysteries for young adults, such as The Stolen Oracle, The Counterfeit African, and The Roman Moon Mystery.
In all, he published at least 79 books including 11 picture books, 39 children's novels, 7 adult mysteries, 4 nonfiction books, 8 historical novels and a play.
Williams and his wife Barbara Girsdansky were married June 3, 1941. They had a son, Christopher ("Chris"), and a daughter, Victoria. Jay Williams died at age 64 from a heart attack while on a trip to London on July 12, 1978.
Jay Williams (May 31, 1914–July 12, 1978) was an American author born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Max and Lillian Jacobson. He cited the experience of growing up as the son of a vaudeville show producer as leading him to pursue his acting career as early as college. Between 1931 and 1934 he attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University where he took part in amateur theatrical productions.
Out of school and out of work during the end of the Depression, he worked as a comedian on the upstate New York Borscht Belt circuit. From 1936 until 1941, Jay Williams worked as a press agent for Dwight Deere Winman, Jed Harris and the Hollywood Theatre Alliance. And even though he played a feature role in the Cannes prize winning film, The Little Fugitive produced in 1953, he turned his attention to writing as a full time career after his discharge from the Army in 1945. He was the recipient of the Purple Heart. While serving in the Army he published his first book, The Stolen Oracle, in 1943.
Williams may be best-known for his young adult "Danny Dunn" science fiction/fantasy series which he co-authored with Raymond Abrashkin. Though Abrashkin died in 1960, he is listed as co-author of all 15 books of this series, which continued from 1956 until 1977. Jay Williams also wrote mysteries for young adults, such as The Stolen Oracle, The Counterfeit African, and The Roman Moon Mystery.
In all, he published at least 79 books including 11 picture books, 39 children's novels, 7 adult mysteries, 4 nonfiction books, 8 historical novels and a play.
Williams and his wife Barbara Girsdansky were married June 3, 1941. They had a son, Christopher ("Chris"), and a daughter, Victoria. Jay Williams died at age 64 from a heart attack while on a trip to London on July 12, 1978.
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September 6, 2014
There are events I do not expect to occur in the Danny Dunn books by this point. I don't imagine anyone will ever die or be seriously hurt and, interestingly, I don't imagine Danny & company's trip to outer space from the first book (and their subsequent fame and meeting the President) will ever be mentioned again - and that's fine, these are books for kids after all, and serials to boot - and if anyone who has grown-up reading serials knows anything, it's that they depend on the illusion of change, not "real" change.
So, after that initial interplanetary flight, the Danny Dunn series had set on its mission of teaching kids about various branches of science, usually by introducing some minor, fanciful element that spurs the plot but is in itself fairly inconsequential. But I've been wondering, given my memory of some later books, just when we would see another truly FANTASTIC invention appear, and I've also been wondering if the series would ever move on from situational threats which drive the plot (being trapped, something malfunctioning) as well. And in DANNY DUNN, TIME TRAVELER, we get both of these events. The latter is fairly small potatoes (Danny and Joe and Joe - not a typo, all will be clear) nearly get kidnapped by some scurrilous tavern-dwellers in 1763. And if the title didn't tip you off about the former event, then that comment certainly did!
Because Prof. Bullfinch has invented a time machine, you see - actually, by name, the Chronocycle. It is not a vehicle and doesn't have a staging area - in fact, it's pretty much just a computer bank. While the series stresses the real science behind the inventions, here the area of interest is Relativity and mathematics, so the actual functioning of the Chronocycle is passed off with a "it would take me too long to explain" - although the theory is expounded on (essentially, the device calculates the positions and motions of atoms in the area of its effect and then calculates probabilities forwards or backwards in time for the locations of those atoms... or something like that... and then warps those probabilities). Like I said, it's not really important because the book's intention is to get kids to think about relativity ("We’re living in an age of magic, my boy, where time and space have to be looked at with new eyes”) and how it means that the stars we're viewing may not even be there "now"... oh, and to have an interest in history. Because Danny isn't interested in history:
"Danny shook his head. 'No,' he replied, 'science is real. And all that history stuff is dead and gone. That’s why it’s not interesting.'
But the first test of the Professor's machine goes wrong (thanks to Joe being clumsy) and he and the crew are hurled 200 years into the past - actually, that's The Professor, Danny, Irene, Joe and Joe's exact double from 3 days into the future, who wanders into the room when they take a test jump. Oh, and also the entirety of the Professor's lab comes with them as well. Now, trapped in Middestown in 1767, can Bullfinch repair the machine and get them home?
Well, this was a lot of fun and surprisingly wide-ranging in what it touched on. Benjamin Franklin happens to be visiting the builder of Bullfinch's house when the group arrives and there's a nice scene where, after the situation has been explained to him, he reflects happily on the fact that all the travelers exclaimed with familiarity when he introduced himself!
The use of "second Joe" doesn't really get milked for much story wise (it's there more as a practical lesson in what time travel may involve) but we do get an existential freak out from Joe ("Suddenly, he uttered a shriek of terror. 'Let’s get out of here!' he yelled. 'We’re in the future! We’re in the future! There are too many of me'). Danny and Irene (but not Joe) have to use their excellent math skills to help calculate their way back to the future.
There's a small touching on the less savory sides of history:
*********************************
Danny was trying to remember his history. "Bonded," he said, "means— anyway, I think it means — that this squire paid her passage over here and she has to work for him until the price is paid off. It’s something rather like slavery, I think."
"Gee, did they have slaves up here? I thought that was only in the South," said Joe.
"No, they had slaves all over, and both white and colored people, too. Even George Washington owned slaves," Danny replied.
*********************************
And a very nice moment where the kids reflect on just what "History" means:
********************************************
Danny and Joe set off again. "You know, it’s all different from what I’d have thought, from the history books," Joe mused.
"What do you mean?"
"Why, when you read the history books you get the idea that people just stood around listening to speeches, and that it would all be sort of quaint and they’d be talking about George Washington and Patrick Henry, and — and so on. Instead it’s just like a day anywhere, people are going about their business — there’s a woman hanging up wash in her yard, and there’s a guy ’way over there in that field ploughing with a horse. It doesn’t look so quaint or funny now that we’ve seen it and gotten used to it. It just looks natural. I guess nobody here realizes that they’re supposed to be our historic past."
Danny laughed. "I know how you feel," he said. "It’s like when we saw that man in buckskins and a coonskin cap, this morning, and thought he must be Kit Carson, or Daniel Boone. But he was really just an ordinary guy going off on a hunt, somebody nobody ever heard of — Mr. Jones, of Midston."
He stuck his hands deep in his pockets. "When you come right down to it," he said, "I suppose in our own time we’re history, too. We must be living in history every day. And maybe two hundred years from our time, kids will read in their history books about our quaint old costumes, and our politics and speeches, and think about us as the historic past."
Joe nodded. "I guess the trouble is we study history as names and dates, and then it doesn’t seem to be about real people. I suppose history is just every day for a long time, a couple of thousand years or more. And I guess it’s things changing every day, so that you don’t even notice them unless you happen to get a long way off from them..."
************************************************
A long way off.... or 47 years, Joe?
Finally, when The Professor first announces that he's going to test his machine and that it may be dangerous, and he may actually never return, Irene gets upset, leading to this scene:
*****************************
Irene kissed the Professor’s cheek, and Joe shook hands with him gravely.
“It scares me,” Irene said, “but it's so exciting, too. It’s like one of those stories in which people can do magical things, like fly, or fight dragons, or make themselves invisible.”
Professor Bullfinch took her gently by the shoulders and turned her to face the wall opposite the windows. Next to the blackboard there was a piece of paper with something lettered on it, set in a gold frame.
“Can you read that?” he said.
Irene read aloud:
'The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.'
—Albert Einstein
“Do you understand?” asked the Professor.
“Yes, I think so,” said Irene.
*******************************************
As a minor aside, evidence in this book, and DANNY DUNN AND THE FOSSIL CAVE, leads me to believe that it's extremely likely Danny's town of Midston is located in Maryland, and actually fairly close to the town of Boyds where I lived a few years ago!
So, after that initial interplanetary flight, the Danny Dunn series had set on its mission of teaching kids about various branches of science, usually by introducing some minor, fanciful element that spurs the plot but is in itself fairly inconsequential. But I've been wondering, given my memory of some later books, just when we would see another truly FANTASTIC invention appear, and I've also been wondering if the series would ever move on from situational threats which drive the plot (being trapped, something malfunctioning) as well. And in DANNY DUNN, TIME TRAVELER, we get both of these events. The latter is fairly small potatoes (Danny and Joe and Joe - not a typo, all will be clear) nearly get kidnapped by some scurrilous tavern-dwellers in 1763. And if the title didn't tip you off about the former event, then that comment certainly did!
Because Prof. Bullfinch has invented a time machine, you see - actually, by name, the Chronocycle. It is not a vehicle and doesn't have a staging area - in fact, it's pretty much just a computer bank. While the series stresses the real science behind the inventions, here the area of interest is Relativity and mathematics, so the actual functioning of the Chronocycle is passed off with a "it would take me too long to explain" - although the theory is expounded on (essentially, the device calculates the positions and motions of atoms in the area of its effect and then calculates probabilities forwards or backwards in time for the locations of those atoms... or something like that... and then warps those probabilities). Like I said, it's not really important because the book's intention is to get kids to think about relativity ("We’re living in an age of magic, my boy, where time and space have to be looked at with new eyes”) and how it means that the stars we're viewing may not even be there "now"... oh, and to have an interest in history. Because Danny isn't interested in history:
"Danny shook his head. 'No,' he replied, 'science is real. And all that history stuff is dead and gone. That’s why it’s not interesting.'
But the first test of the Professor's machine goes wrong (thanks to Joe being clumsy) and he and the crew are hurled 200 years into the past - actually, that's The Professor, Danny, Irene, Joe and Joe's exact double from 3 days into the future, who wanders into the room when they take a test jump. Oh, and also the entirety of the Professor's lab comes with them as well. Now, trapped in Middestown in 1767, can Bullfinch repair the machine and get them home?
Well, this was a lot of fun and surprisingly wide-ranging in what it touched on. Benjamin Franklin happens to be visiting the builder of Bullfinch's house when the group arrives and there's a nice scene where, after the situation has been explained to him, he reflects happily on the fact that all the travelers exclaimed with familiarity when he introduced himself!
The use of "second Joe" doesn't really get milked for much story wise (it's there more as a practical lesson in what time travel may involve) but we do get an existential freak out from Joe ("Suddenly, he uttered a shriek of terror. 'Let’s get out of here!' he yelled. 'We’re in the future! We’re in the future! There are too many of me'). Danny and Irene (but not Joe) have to use their excellent math skills to help calculate their way back to the future.
There's a small touching on the less savory sides of history:
*********************************
Danny was trying to remember his history. "Bonded," he said, "means— anyway, I think it means — that this squire paid her passage over here and she has to work for him until the price is paid off. It’s something rather like slavery, I think."
"Gee, did they have slaves up here? I thought that was only in the South," said Joe.
"No, they had slaves all over, and both white and colored people, too. Even George Washington owned slaves," Danny replied.
*********************************
And a very nice moment where the kids reflect on just what "History" means:
********************************************
Danny and Joe set off again. "You know, it’s all different from what I’d have thought, from the history books," Joe mused.
"What do you mean?"
"Why, when you read the history books you get the idea that people just stood around listening to speeches, and that it would all be sort of quaint and they’d be talking about George Washington and Patrick Henry, and — and so on. Instead it’s just like a day anywhere, people are going about their business — there’s a woman hanging up wash in her yard, and there’s a guy ’way over there in that field ploughing with a horse. It doesn’t look so quaint or funny now that we’ve seen it and gotten used to it. It just looks natural. I guess nobody here realizes that they’re supposed to be our historic past."
Danny laughed. "I know how you feel," he said. "It’s like when we saw that man in buckskins and a coonskin cap, this morning, and thought he must be Kit Carson, or Daniel Boone. But he was really just an ordinary guy going off on a hunt, somebody nobody ever heard of — Mr. Jones, of Midston."
He stuck his hands deep in his pockets. "When you come right down to it," he said, "I suppose in our own time we’re history, too. We must be living in history every day. And maybe two hundred years from our time, kids will read in their history books about our quaint old costumes, and our politics and speeches, and think about us as the historic past."
Joe nodded. "I guess the trouble is we study history as names and dates, and then it doesn’t seem to be about real people. I suppose history is just every day for a long time, a couple of thousand years or more. And I guess it’s things changing every day, so that you don’t even notice them unless you happen to get a long way off from them..."
************************************************
A long way off.... or 47 years, Joe?
Finally, when The Professor first announces that he's going to test his machine and that it may be dangerous, and he may actually never return, Irene gets upset, leading to this scene:
*****************************
Irene kissed the Professor’s cheek, and Joe shook hands with him gravely.
“It scares me,” Irene said, “but it's so exciting, too. It’s like one of those stories in which people can do magical things, like fly, or fight dragons, or make themselves invisible.”
Professor Bullfinch took her gently by the shoulders and turned her to face the wall opposite the windows. Next to the blackboard there was a piece of paper with something lettered on it, set in a gold frame.
“Can you read that?” he said.
Irene read aloud:
'The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.'
—Albert Einstein
“Do you understand?” asked the Professor.
“Yes, I think so,” said Irene.
*******************************************
As a minor aside, evidence in this book, and DANNY DUNN AND THE FOSSIL CAVE, leads me to believe that it's extremely likely Danny's town of Midston is located in Maryland, and actually fairly close to the town of Boyds where I lived a few years ago!
May 28, 2012
Read the Danny Dunn series when I was in grade school and loved them all!
January 19, 2016
I fell in love with Danny Dunn in fourth or fifth grade. I'm now 47, and I decided to begin 2016 by rereading the series.
Time Traveler is one of the best books in the series, from the perspective of the magnitude of the adventure. It does have a couple of flaws, however. One flaw is the science. Not that I expect a children's book about time travel to be scientifically accurate. But it takes a little from the story, for me, that the book can't seem to make up its mind about whether or not the characters are actually traveling through time. Professor Bullfinch describes his invention as a simulator: what it presents to the "travelers" is a calculated prediction, he says. But Joe could only have gone back in time twice if the machine actually does travel through time.
The second flaw involves Joe's second trip through time. On that trip, he was "Possible", so he should have experienced everything that Possible experienced. And yet he recounts how, despite knowing what was going to happen, he couldn't avoid being captured again. But for the second trip he was Possible, not Joe, and therefore he should have been playing baseball with the local kids while Joe was being captured.
Time Traveler is one of the best books in the series, from the perspective of the magnitude of the adventure. It does have a couple of flaws, however. One flaw is the science. Not that I expect a children's book about time travel to be scientifically accurate. But it takes a little from the story, for me, that the book can't seem to make up its mind about whether or not the characters are actually traveling through time. Professor Bullfinch describes his invention as a simulator: what it presents to the "travelers" is a calculated prediction, he says. But Joe could only have gone back in time twice if the machine actually does travel through time.
The second flaw involves Joe's second trip through time. On that trip, he was "Possible", so he should have experienced everything that Possible experienced. And yet he recounts how, despite knowing what was going to happen, he couldn't avoid being captured again. But for the second trip he was Possible, not Joe, and therefore he should have been playing baseball with the local kids while Joe was being captured.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 31, 2016
For my Year of Nostalgic Re-reading, why another Danny Dunn? While waiting for Danny Dunn and the Anti-gravity Paint, this was available and I believe it to be the first time travel book I read. In it, I was also introduced to cricket, and though I don't actually recall if the first time, indentured servitude.
What I did not know was that the Einstein quote Williams included was likely never said by Einstein. I couldn't find a legitimate source...though there is something similar. Interestingly, the misquote he used in 1963 is out there in the 'verse, still being spread.
The scanned copy I borrowed from openlibrary.org was missing pages 112/113 amnd page 120 was partially obscured. Still, I'm jazzed at having access to Open Library. The internet that couldn't confirm an attributed Einstein quote brought me a book from my youth.
What I did not know was that the Einstein quote Williams included was likely never said by Einstein. I couldn't find a legitimate source...though there is something similar. Interestingly, the misquote he used in 1963 is out there in the 'verse, still being spread.
The scanned copy I borrowed from openlibrary.org was missing pages 112/113 amnd page 120 was partially obscured. Still, I'm jazzed at having access to Open Library. The internet that couldn't confirm an attributed Einstein quote brought me a book from my youth.
November 24, 2021
I lucked upon this copy of Danny Dunn, Time Traveler in a used bookstore. This was one of my favorite books growing up. I checked it out at the library in my hometown as a kid countless times. It was so much fun to revisit it.
I was surprised at how well-written it is and educational.
The Danny Dunn stories revolve around Danny, a very smart, fun, inquisitive boy who is interested in science and math. He and his mother live with a Professor Bullfinch (the mother as housekeeper.)
Due to his interests, Danny finds himself encountering adventure after adventure with his friends Joe and Irene, and, sometimes, the professor.
In Danny Dun, Time Traveler, the professor invents a time machine called the Chronocycle. Danny and his friends use math by way of proportionate measurements and science by way of a handcrafted periscope to secretly watch Professor Bullfinch work on the Chronocycle in his lab until the professor sees what they’re up to.
When the professor finally shows the kids how the Chonocycle works, it whisks them all off to a short time in the future where they pick up a second Joe and then back in time to their town two hundred years ago where they have an adventure with kidnappers, learn about history, slavery in America, the person who founded their town, and also meet Benjamin Franklin.
Hopefully this isn’t a spoiler that Danny and the gang make it back for their next adventure in the series.
Again, this was one of my favorites growing up, and the story really holds up – it’s timeless, so to speak. No pun intended.
Enjoy.
I was surprised at how well-written it is and educational.
The Danny Dunn stories revolve around Danny, a very smart, fun, inquisitive boy who is interested in science and math. He and his mother live with a Professor Bullfinch (the mother as housekeeper.)
Due to his interests, Danny finds himself encountering adventure after adventure with his friends Joe and Irene, and, sometimes, the professor.
In Danny Dun, Time Traveler, the professor invents a time machine called the Chronocycle. Danny and his friends use math by way of proportionate measurements and science by way of a handcrafted periscope to secretly watch Professor Bullfinch work on the Chronocycle in his lab until the professor sees what they’re up to.
When the professor finally shows the kids how the Chonocycle works, it whisks them all off to a short time in the future where they pick up a second Joe and then back in time to their town two hundred years ago where they have an adventure with kidnappers, learn about history, slavery in America, the person who founded their town, and also meet Benjamin Franklin.
Hopefully this isn’t a spoiler that Danny and the gang make it back for their next adventure in the series.
Again, this was one of my favorites growing up, and the story really holds up – it’s timeless, so to speak. No pun intended.
Enjoy.
October 11, 2021
I read a bunch of these as a kid but I don't think I read this one.
For books aimed at 8 year olds, the time traveling parts are a little complicated.
A character gets duplicated because a past version meets a future version.
There is also discussion of alternate timelines.
The kids learn a little history and electricity by meeting a famous person in the past.
These are fun short adventures long out of print.
But you can sometimes find them in used bookstore or shops.
And it's possible there are digital copies out somewhere on the web.
For books aimed at 8 year olds, the time traveling parts are a little complicated.
A character gets duplicated because a past version meets a future version.
There is also discussion of alternate timelines.
The kids learn a little history and electricity by meeting a famous person in the past.
These are fun short adventures long out of print.
But you can sometimes find them in used bookstore or shops.
And it's possible there are digital copies out somewhere on the web.
November 5, 2021
A fun fantastic tale. I'm not quite sure time travel works this way, but then again I'm not certain that you can time travel in a telephone booth or DeLorean either. There is a lovely long review if you want lots of details, but suffice it to say that fun was had in the 1700s.
Many people mention that Danny Dunn helped them become a geologist or a physicist, sadly this book in the series wasn't as my library when I was a kid of I might have grown up to be a time traveler. Ah what might have been, now off to watch Dr. Who.
Many people mention that Danny Dunn helped them become a geologist or a physicist, sadly this book in the series wasn't as my library when I was a kid of I might have grown up to be a time traveler. Ah what might have been, now off to watch Dr. Who.
February 29, 2024
Danny Dunn and his two friends, Irene and Joe, get mixed up with Professor Bullfinch's latest invention, a Time-Machine or as he names it, a "Chronocycle." It follows the usual course of a Danny Dunn invention: the professor comes up with a new idea, he builds a machine, an accident happens and suddenly, all of them find themselves somewhere in the past (with a surprise extra character). Time travel stories are fun to read, but several paradoxes happen.
Still it was a fun read.
Still it was a fun read.
December 26, 2024
This book has a surprisingly good explanation of time. Danny and friends find themselves sent back in time to pre-colonial America. Of course they meet Benjamin Franklin and of course Mr. Franklin helps the gang return to the present.
February 11, 2023
4.5 stars
I like the theme, the vibe, and the corn bread! One of the best Danny dunn books we’ve read. Luke
I like the theme, the vibe, and the corn bread! One of the best Danny dunn books we’ve read. Luke
December 21, 2012
This book was not exactly one of my favorite books I read as a kid and I don't remember much about it now but it sticks out in my mind because my friend's mother, a neighbor, quizzed me about the book after I returned it to the library, asking me to summarize it for her and tell her what color the book was bound in. She told me with a big grin she always had on her face that I would read many books in my life, good books, and that I would remember the color of the book. Her husband worked for the phone company and I think they were attempting time travels of their own with me. It struck me as a little strange then, but since my life as a middle aged adult has become consumed with examples as they displayed back then. I find myself overloaded with small sayings that people used in my life coming back to the present time. It was fun to her then, and I know she since got over the day I mourned her my life over her son.
February 24, 2007
This was a fun book for a kids book. I am glad I picked it up to see what it was about. I am sending it on to some children in Tonga. There is a teacher there through the peace corp who asked for books for her class that were chapter books appropriate for ten year olds. The corp sent her Charles dickins withering heights, and shakespear, and some other hard to read books. The kids are learning english and those books are not what she was hoping for. I have a bunch of books that I found in WI at the good will that are great for this group of kids, and I think Danny Dunn will fit in great too! Thanks for the read!
dnf-partial-read
August 12, 2015Having had Danny Dunn #7 read to me as a youth (and enjoyed revisiting it in my adulthood), I had high hopes for this next book in the series. #7 had featured some wacky "science," since it was a book about anti-gravity that was written before man went into space! (I laugh more at it than with it.) I may have enjoyed it were I first to have encountered it in my youth, but I gave up.
September 9, 2016
More fantastical than past Danny Dunn adventures ("time travel", really? Mr. Williams should see a Doctor!)
Still a pleasant romp that takes me back to finding the Danny Dunn stories back in the 4th or 5th grade.
Still a pleasant romp that takes me back to finding the Danny Dunn stories back in the 4th or 5th grade.
July 17, 2012
Read after Nate read. Good kids' book about Prof. Bullfinch inventing time machine and taking Joe, Danny, and Irene back to their home as it was occupied by Ben Franklin. Makes science and math fun. Nate also enjoyed.
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October 4, 2007Williams, Jay and Abrashkin, Raymond
April 9, 2012
I really enjoyed reading this book out loud to my boys, 6,7 and 8. It was a delightful light read that held their interest, made them laugh and was a great diversion from our weightier novels.
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April 14, 2015Tom loves listening to these!
May 28, 2008
Emma loved these...A little dated, but smart kids solving mysteries...
December 1, 2017
The professor asked, “You know what time is, of course?”
“Well, sure we know,” said Joe. “7:30, time for breakfast; twelve noon, time for lunch; six o’clock, time for dinner.”
“And time for snacks in between,” said Danny. “And snacks between snacks.”
“I never eat between snacks,“ Joe said, with dignity.
“Well, sure we know,” said Joe. “7:30, time for breakfast; twelve noon, time for lunch; six o’clock, time for dinner.”
“And time for snacks in between,” said Danny. “And snacks between snacks.”
“I never eat between snacks,“ Joe said, with dignity.
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