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Over the years, my friend Linda and I have nostalgically recalled a series of books we both read in elementary school.

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We both wondered why we never saw them in used bookstores, or libraries, or met other people who fondly recalled them? These books came up again on Sunday, and I did a Google search and discovered they were books published by Bobbs-Merrill starting in the s. The series was called Childhood of Famous Americans. Well, this site solved that mystery, claiming there were in the series, and showed photos of how they looked different over the decades.

Some of them were orange and others were blue.

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They also had uniform dust jackets with numbers. Those numbers appealed to me. They made me want to read them all. However, I doubt I read more than of them. Linda claims to have read far more, but then she was a much bigger bookworm in elementary school than I was. Linda and I both remember the yellow decoration about the blue book below.

Evidently, this series was intended to provide patriotic reading for young readers. I was already a patriotic little kid when I discovered them. I was in the 5th grade.