Let's Be Safe

Here's one generally alarming, thoroughly warmhearted nostalgic look at various grade school safety lessons, culled from books and pamphlets published from the 1930s thru the '60s, for the grave and serious purpose of pointing up to their tender audiences sundry "simple rules for staying alive." The index includes the following topics: "Traffic Light Dangers," "Street Crossing Etiquette", "Banana Peel Caution," "Who Gets Hurt on the Tracks," "The Signs of Life," "The Dont's of Bicycling," "The Cautious Twins," "Campin' and Whittlin' Fun," "Swimming and Skating Safety," "Youth-Avoid the Penalties," "On the Bus," "Clean Parks and Clean Streets," "In the Library," "Matches and Electricity," "Tooth Tales," "Hygeine Hints," "Small Cuts and Scratches." If you hail from the baby boomer generation or before, you might just recognize these little illustrated vignettes from your very own schoolbooks. In any case, you'll spend a pleasant hour or so browsing these pages, learning such poems as: "Food You Should Not Eat" and immersing yourself in the sweeping and epic "Tale of Tommy Tooth." Pure alarmist fun.