64 pages In good condition, no rips or tears HUMOR When Sam Levenson, as a boy, finally mustered up the courage to ask that age-old question, "Where did I come from?" he got some pretty discouraging answers: "When you'll have children of your own, you'll ask them." "Ask your mother. You're from her side of the family." "If God wanted us to know what's on the inside he would have put it on the outside." The revolution in sex education has changed all that. Today the facts of life are rampant among children, but, as Levenson points out, "One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination." In a series of funny, touching, unabashed and uninhibited vignettes, Levenson—aided and abetted by the incomparable Whitney Darrow, Jr.—quotes the lovely, innocent logic of little people as they express their views of the big people's world. "The difference between men and women is that women dance backwards." "We come from seeds just like vegetables; that's why they call us human beans." All are woven together with a commentary that glows with Sam's own brand of humor and wisdom. For him, "Sex is a three-letter word which sometimes needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning: words like give, care, help, kiss, feel, love; words which even a child can understand." All of which makes A Time for Innocence one of the most lovable exposés in years. A Fireside Book Published by Simon and Schuster New York 0-671-22779-3