# Who Remembers This Kids' Book?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-kids-book/287348>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 30, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-kids-book/287348 "2005-01-30T00:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-kids-book/287348/1 "2005-01-30T00:50:51Z")

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When I was a kid, I read a book, or possibly a story within a book, about a group of kids who found some old telephones and batteries in a junkyard and set up a phone system between their two clubhouses. There was a fat kid named “Tubby”. It was written at about the 10-12 year old level.

If anyone can ID this book, I shall be duly impressed.

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**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-kids-book/287348/2 "2005-01-30T01:46:38Z")

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I typed “Tubby’s Clubhouse” into Google and got a bunch of his about a “Little Lulu” comic, plus some kid’s clubs or something like that.

Is that the right direction?

Sir Rhosis

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-kids-book/287348/3 "2005-01-30T02:16:52Z")

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