Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera

  I continue with my history of the space race week by week through the eyes of My Weekly Reader. Both of these are from the 2nd grader edit...

  This was a promotional comic from Borden's dairy staring their mascot Elsie the Cow. It contains 16 pages of "Space-Fun, Games, P...

  As I fill in with a few more Weekly Readers.  Several books that I hoped would arrive have not appeared so I will continue with these char...

Nov 16, 1959

  Oct 12, 1959 Another My Weekly Reader today. How is your 2026 going for you? This issue talks about the development of the Mercury capsule...

                                                                     March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Re...

  Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! I am doing this post back in June 2025 so I am hoping the world is a happier and safer place in Decemb...