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A Girls' Treasury of Career Stories by Elisabeth Beresford

avrilhj's review

3.0

Rereading this was fun. The stories are from the 1950s and 1960s, so the copy I read as a child must have been second-hand. I didn't notice its age then, but it's very obvious now. The funniest line was from a story about a girl who wants to be an archaeologist but who is stuck working on her parents' farm: "A hen battery, it should be explained, is a specially designed hut in which hundreds of hens live out their lives in racks, tier upon tier, doing nothing all day except eat and lay eggs according to a scientifically prepared schedule." I can't imagine a children's book so calmly explaining battery farming today! But overall another successful trip down memory lane.