Girl-child of the 70s

[asd109]

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[skatiemom]

Holly Hobbie

I still have a small stuffed doll version stored upstairs. *packrat*

[asd109]

Ok--that is one weird-ass plotline.

And yeah, no recollection of moonboots. Perhaps I've just blocked them out subconsciously.

[befana]

I had moon boots. Gray and white. I wore them when we went camping in the snow.

[crankyliberal]

Moon Boots are in vinyl? I thought they were those puffy ones - of course this was in the 1980s

Of course I also had the Hamil, people thought I was a boy, and I thought Laura Ingalls Wilder was the Bomb (not that I knew what Da Bomb was)

[pecosy]

Weekly reader was so cool. They were little newsletters you got in school with cheesy human interest stories or current events dumbed down for kids. The thing I remember most is every year they recycled their story about "Bubble Boy." When we were in our bathroom humor phase, my brother and I used to make a parody version called *ahem* "Poo's Weekly Reader." Comedy gems, I tell you. We even wrote special issue when Bubble Boy died that dealt with how the staff would cope now that they couldn't depend on using that same story again. I gotta find those...

[pecosy]

Looking more closely at the meme, I think they confused the Scholastic Book Order flyer with Weekly Reader.

Which remind me of Dynamite!

[skatiemom]

There were also Weekly Reader Books. I googled them. *dork*

[jimcleave]

Yeah, at my school they'd periodically give out big order forms for books and posters and stickers and stuff you could get from Weekly Reader Book Club. I had E.T. and Tron posters from them in my room at home for years.