THE REAL BOOK CLUB

 

       In the 1950s I belonged to the Real Book Club.  Each month Garden City Books in Garden City, New York, would send the members a new book.  I never knew what subject was coming next; it was an exciting surprise; and whatever it was would become my chief interest for a month as I perused the book's pages.  

       Just now searching the internet I see that it's actually possible for a collector to obtain every one of the 63 books in the series, but as of now I have only 12 of them, and enjoy reading them now as much as I did seventy years ago  In the Lund Library we have The Real Book about Airplanes, The Real Book about Amazing Animals, The Real Book about Baseball, The Real Book about Dogs, The Real Book about Easy Music-Making, The Real Book of Games, The Real Book of Jokes, The Real Book about Our National Parks, The Real Book about Pets and How to Care for Them, The Real Book about Pirates, The Real Book about Prehistoric Life, and The Real Book of Science Experiments.

       If you'd like to collect them, or just remember them, here's a list of them all: 

The Real Book about Abraham Lincoln
The Real Book about Airplanes
The Real Book about Alaska
The Real Book about Amazing Animals
The Real Book about Amazing Birds
The Real Book about Amazing Scientific Facts
The Real Book about American Tall Tales
The Real Book about Andrew Jackson
The Real Book about the Antarctic
The Real Book about Armed Forces
The Real Book about Baseball
The Real Book about Benjamin Franklin
The Real Book about Buffalo Bill
The Real Book about Bugs, Insects and Such
The Real Book about Camping
The Real Book about Canada
The Real Book about Christopher Columbus
The Real Book about Cowboys
The Real Book about Crime Detection
The Real Book about Daniel Boone
The Real Book about Dogs
The Real Book about Easy Music-Making
The Real Book about Electronics
The Real Book about Explorers
The Real Book about Famous Battles
The Real Book about Farms
The Real Book about Games
The Real Book about George Washington
The Real Book about Gold
The Real Book about Great American Journeys
The Real Book about Historic Places of America
The Real Book about Horses
The Real Book about Indians
The Real Book about Inventions
The Real Book of Jokes
The Real Book about Journalism
The Real Book about Magic
The Real Book about Making Dolls and Doll Clothes
The Real Book about Mountain Climbing
The Real Book about the Mounties
The Real Book about Our National Capital
The Real Book about Our National Parks
The Real Book about Pets
The Real Book about Photography
The Real Book about Pirates
The Real Book about Prehistoric Life
The Real Book about Real Crafts
The Real Book about Rivers
The Real Book about Robots and Thinking Machines
The Real Book of Science Experiments
The Real Book about the Sea
The Real Book about Ships
The Real Book about Space Travel
The Real Book about Spies
The Real Book about Sports
The Real Book about Stars
The Real Book about Submarines
The Real Book about the Texas Rangers
The Real Book about Trains
The Real Book about Treasure Hunting
The Real Book about the Weather
The Real Book about Whales and Whaling
The Real Book about the Wild West