Police propaganda for children from The Friendly Sheriff coloring book, published by the National Child Safety Council, 1991, Jackson, Michigan.

Police propaganda for children from The Friendly Sheriff coloring book, published by the National Child Safety Council, 1991, Jackson, Michigan.

Police propaganda for children from The Friendly Sheriff coloring book, published by the National Child Safety Council, 1991, Jackson, Michigan.

From Interpreting Children’s Drawings by Joseph H. DiLeo, M.D., Brunner/Mazel Publishers, New York, 1983.

A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book. More photos.

A sample completed page from Fun Forms #1, published by Lee Publications, Printed in the U.S.A., 1984. Fun Forms is a booklet with 23 different heads, which can be outfitted with sticker eyes, noses, ears, mouths and other details. I found this copy in an alley in Chicago about ten years ago, along with other papers belonging to a child.

A sample completed page from Fun Forms #1, published by Lee Publications, Printed in the U.S.A., 1984. Fun Forms is a booklet with 23 different heads, which can be outfitted with sticker eyes, noses, ears, mouths and other details. I found this copy in an alley in Chicago about ten years ago, along with other papers belonging to a child. More examples from this publication to follow.

A sample completed page from Fun Forms #1, published by Lee Publications, Printed in the U.S.A., 1984. Fun Forms is a booklet with 23 different heads, which can be outfitted with sticker eyes, noses, ears, mouths and other details. I found this copy in an alley in Chicago about ten years ago, along with other papers belonging to a child. More examples from this publication to follow.

A sample completed page from Fun Forms #1, published by Lee Publications, Printed in the U.S.A., 1984. Fun Forms is a booklet with 23 different heads, which can be outfitted with sticker eyes, noses, ears, mouths and other details. I found this copy in an alley in Chicago about ten years ago, along with other papers belonging to a child. More examples from this publication to follow.

A sample page from Fun Forms #1, published by Lee Publications, Printed in the U.S.A., 1984. Fun Forms is a booklet with 23 different heads, which can be outfitted with sticker eyes, noses, ears, mouths and other details. I found this copy in an alley in Chicago about ten years ago, along with other papers belonging to a child. More examples from this publication to follow.

The back cover of Fun Forms #1, published by Lee Publications, Printed in the U.S.A., 1984. Fun Forms is a booklet with 23 different heads, which can be outfitted with sticker eyes, noses, ears, mouths and other details. I found this copy in an alley in Chicago about ten years ago, along with other papers belonging to a child. More examples from this publication to follow.

Items I did not purchase at the Rosemont, Illinois flea market this morning: Zippy the chimp book (Okay, I probably should have purchased this).

A printed cardstock Book Parade sheet, used in 1959. On the reverse of the card is a handwritten list of the 21 books the 8th grade student read between October 9 and June 8, 1959.

The cover of a 1976 children’s book on electricity. One of many such books in Arabic that were discarded from the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago about ten years ago. I wish I had picked up more than a few.

An illustration from a delightful 1970 Arabic children’s book about the adventures of a gingerbread man that jumps out of the oven and escapes from its makers. I’m unable to read the Arabic title but maybe one of you can recognize the source? This book was a discard from the Chicago Public Library system that I purchased from the Harold Washington Library Center about ten years ago.