The ratio of “fun circus hijinks” to “running away is miserable, actually” tilts definitively toward misery
May I recommend as an antidote Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Sawdust in His Shoes (1950)? One of my mother's favorite books as a child, out of print for decades, I was finally able to get her a copy a few years ago and I do not recall it containing any kind of gratuitous monkey harm.
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Date: 2022-01-05 09:02 pm (UTC)May I recommend as an antidote Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Sawdust in His Shoes (1950)? One of my mother's favorite books as a child, out of print for decades, I was finally able to get her a copy a few years ago and I do not recall it containing any kind of gratuitous monkey harm.