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Do You Believe in Gremlins?

A long time ago (in the 1940s!), Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl, wrote a story about impish creatures that sabotaged air force planes, but really, had their hearts in the right place (they were just trying to protect their forests from those "giant tin birds"!). The story was so whimsical and perfect for the time, Walt Disney and Dahl got together to make an animated movie about them.

Dahl's story revolved around Gremlin Gus and his friends, who, at first, confounded, harassed, and befuddled the British air force pilots. Well, what goes around, comes around. Eventually, the gremlins got confounded, harassed, and befuddled (nothing Initial Training School and used postage stamps couldn't do!). They ended up working FOR the Royal Air Force.

But then, the gremlins got into the act (again!). Confounded, harassed, and befuddled, Disney never made the movie! Instead, a cheeky, funny, and feel-good book - The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production, was born. Last published in 1943, the book is available again (at The Tudy Book Shop!) for a whole new generation of young readers, gremlins, fifinellas, widgets, and spandules. (Which one of these have you seen @ 10,000 feet? Some flight crews reportedly see widgets all the time.)
So now, are you confounded, harassed, and befuddled? Don't believe in gremlins yet? Think fifinellas are just a figment of a fighter pilot's imagination? Then fasten your seatbelts for a fun read! Stow your doubts away. Let your imagination soar "higher than the highest high!" The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production is a wonderful, nostalgic blast from the past. It'll have you begging for that window seat. Tally ho, young recruits, tally ho!

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