# Please help me find a book I liked as a kid

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**Created:** [December 31, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-a-book-i-liked-as-a-kid/645629 "2012-12-31T02:50:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-a-book-i-liked-as-a-kid/645629/1 "2012-12-31T02:50:49Z")

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All I can remember is that it was a book where grandparents are telling a little girl what her parents were like when they were little. The illustrations show the little girl imagining her parents as adults doing these things- one example was her father sitting in a shopping cart and throwing a tantrum.

It probably would have been the early 1980s when I was reading this book, though I don’t know if it was a new book then or not.

I’d like to get a copy of this book now, but my google-fu has not been sufficient to find it. Can anybody help?