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another unironic Great Brain fan checking in. I wonder if I still have my copy of the one wherein he's sent to boarding school and basically becomes a preteen kingpin. when I was just a lil spring Onion I wished I could be that clever, and that kind of clever too, not like that pedantic dweeb Encyclopedia Brown never really got into Cleary, though; just never really grabbed me, is all. (Probably because those books are supposed to be about reasonably normal girls, and not nascent goons like yours truly  .) I preferred to get books with titles like I Spent My Summer Vacation Kidnapped Into Space, go figure
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I just remembered being really into a book series by one Sylvia Waugh, about a family of life-sized humanoid dolls, the Mennyms, who came to life after their maker died and who have to navigate the flesh-and-blood world without letting it know that they exist. For a series whose characters can repair themselves with a bit of cloth, kapok, and a sewing needle, the books get downright existential and sort of depressing; but I loved the ones I could get my hands on just the same
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