![]() ![]() While only about 50 years old, the volume takes us back to simpler, dirtier, more dangerous time. Nurse Cherry Ames cheerfully leads readers through various basic first aid techniques, often using anecdotes about her brother Charlie (forever falling out of windows) and her friend Midge (who stands in a sink full of water to change a light bulb, teaching the reader a valuable lesson about not getting electrocuted) (Oh, Midge). Starting this week, we’ll look at three non-fiction spin offs of popular series: Eventually, most of the really long-running series would seem to run out of ideas for a new installment in the adventures of the titular plucky girl-heroines and, wanting to keep that cash cow producing delicious green paper milk, would turn out a non-fiction volume so readers could model after and improve upon their lives in the manner of their YA favorites. ![]()
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