Copies of Timmy and the Commissar fetch high prices on eBay

The Edge of the American West blog is back in business, and informing us that the author of Danny and the Dinosaur was a Stalinist.



(Via - copyright M. Kupperman.)

And just the other day I had been pondering how Danny (and Sammy the Seal) are conservative in the classic children's-book manner: the dinosaur or seal can cut loose for a while, but has to return home in the end, restore the social order, etc.