Somebody you love was born in 1951. Give them the year back.
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In 1951 a family home was worth about $7,354. A gallon of gas cost 27 cents. The penny in your pocket had two ears of wheat on the back, Harry Truman was in the White House, and a television set was something only one family in four owned.
This is not a dry list of dates. It is 101 short chapters about the world a 1951 baby was born into, and then about their own life: the party line telephone, the milkman before dawn, the doctor who came to the house, Sputnik in the autumn they started school, the Salk vaccine, the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and the Moon landing the summer they turned eighteen.
Inside: 101 fact cards, every one a real dated fact checked against public sources. 8 word search puzzles with full solution grids at the back. 40 quiz questions across two quizzes, with all the answers. 8 original pencil illustrations and a drawing on every single page. Large print throughout, set in 12.5 point type for comfortable reading.
Fill-in keepsake pages: where I was born, the house I grew up in, my first job, the best year of my life so far. Every chapter ends with a tick box, a quiz question or a line to write on. It is a book that gets answered, not just read, which is exactly why it gets kept.
Turning 75 is worth marking properly. Give them the year they were born, and room to write down their own story before it is lost.
