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Growing Up Happy

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I was fortunate enough to get to hear Bob Keeshan, known to me as Captain Kangaroo, when he came through my town on a book tour promoting this book. In a hall filled to overflowing, he entertained us with stories of his life, his family, his show, and his career after the sad cancellation of Captain Kangaroo. Reading this book is like a walk down Memory Lane. The book reflects his warm and humorous personality and I treasure my copy. As a longtime fan of the show, I wish he was still around so my children could be entertained with his gentle humor and inherent understanding of children rather than the loud, obnoxious, overly lond commercials that pass as children's programming today.

In the weird world that passed for our family when I was growing up the wonderful world of Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Greenjeans and Mr. Moose and all the others were a bright spot: a happy, sane, kind distraction. Much thanks to him, Soupy Sales, and animation studios such as Walter Lantz, and Hannah-Barbera, for showing humor and sanity to a kid growing up in what was an otherwise rather cold dangerous and insane world.