I recently sold a tatty old book I had bought on ebay. It was from a series, begun in the 50s, called Danny Dunn and\u2026\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was about 8 or 9, I found a book in my school library (Bybrook Junior School) called \u2018Danny Dunn Invisible Boy\u2019 by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin. One abiding memory I have of it was of one day my teacher had called my name several times to attract my attention and I had not heard her. When I eventually looked up and apologised, she said it was so nice to see someone so distracted by a book and she just let me carry on! Thank you Mrs Samuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At some point I managed to track down another title, \u2018Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint’ and that was every bit as distracting. And that was that… Roll on 30 years and ebay came along and I remember thinking perhaps I could use it to track down further copies of the series, as they had long been out of print. Sure enough they appeared from time-to-time and I managed to win them. There were other bidders after them too, so there should be others out there to read this post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The premise of the book is that Danny Dunn, a young lad, lives with his Mother who is housekeeper to a Professor Bullfinch. Each story is arranged around a ‘happy accident’ that Danny causes with one of the Professors experiments which leads to great discoveries and adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over time I managed to obtain a full collection as a mixture of hard and paperbacks. Writing this has made me realise I do not have a full set of each so I may look again. I have read a couple and they are still distracting to this 50 something! I was wary that I could destroy the magic, but I wasn’t disappointed and it brought back many happy and warm memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have a chance to read one, or pass one to your son or grandson, it may well create a life-long memory of ‘that book’ that completely took their attention, like it did for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n