Somebody you love was born in 1956. Give them the year back.
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In 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and won re-election by 457 electoral votes to 73. A first-class stamp cost three cents, and had cost three cents since 1932. Gasoline averaged thirty cents a gallon. The median American family lived on $4,800 a year. Seven homes in ten had a television set, and Elvis sang on The Ed Sullivan Show to sixty million people.
This is not a dry list of dates. It is 101 short chapters about the world a 1956 baby was born into, and then about their own life: the party line telephone and the milk in glass bottles on the step, the frost-caked freezer box and Monday washday, Dick and Jane and duck-and-cover drills, the purple ditto sheet everybody sniffed before they read it, the metal lunch box with the bottle in the lid, Play-Doh and Barbie and Saturday morning cartoons, Don Larsen's perfect game, the transistor radio under the pillow, the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the night nobody sent you to bed because men were walking on the Moon, and the pumps running dry in 1973.
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 trivia 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.
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 70 is worth marking properly. Give them the year they were born, and room to write down their own story before it is lost.
