The Shadow Library: Rolling Along in "The Gnomobile"

A 1936 book by Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Jungle" fame, a 1906 book whose revelations about the meat-packing industry led, to some extent, to the Pure Food and Drug Act  and the Meat Inspection Act) that was adapted into the 1967 Disney movie "The Gnome-Mobile", of which this edition was a tie-in. I remember watching the movie on The Wonderful World of Disney. It starred Walter Brennan with Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber (the two Banks children in "Mary Poppins") and used many of the same effects of "Darby O'Gill and the Little People". The title song was by the Sherman brothers! There was even a good environmental message about saving trees, especially the redwoods in California. Although nowadays I would rank it as a third-tier Disney, I enjoyed it well enough as a child. I found a rather battered copy of the book years later and tried to read it but found Sinclair's venture into children's literature (written for his grand-daughter) too leaden to enjoy. After hanging on to it a while, I sold it. There is a vast difference between the book and its adaptation.