What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I read this book as a kid in the late 80’s or maybe early 90’s. The part I remember distinctly is he is trying to find a way to sell it and he finds a classified ad to buy hundreds of tubes and then they have to figure out how to fill the tubes. They start off doing it by hand and then eventually find a machine or factory or something to help do it.

It was either the tubes were originally for toothpaste and he was filling them with glue or vice versa (hence the question mark in my topic title).

I found “The Toothpaste Millionaire” in my searches, but I don’t think that is it, but I’m going to try to track down a copy to see regardless.

I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but it sounds an awful lot like The Toothpaste Millionaire. What I remember best about that book (which I read almost 40 years ago) is the difficulty of filling the tubes.

Sounds to me like The Toothpaste Millionaire, but if not, maybe Danny Dunn and the Universal Glue?

I just reread The Toothpaste Millionaire to my kids a few months ago after having read it as a kid in the '80s. I concur--this sounds like what you're describing. Good book!

Well, three voices all saying the same thing means I’ll have to find that book and see if it was indeed the book.

Here is the Google Books preview of The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill. There are different cover images, but both editions below contain unique illustrations.

1972 - https://books.google.com/books?id=1PZ...
Each chapter title

2006 - https://books.google.com/books?id=pRW...

Charles ~~
Please let us know one way or the other [or the other way]. If you've found it great! We'll mark this thread as solved and we'll shelve the book with our other solved books. If you haven't found it, let us know that and we'll keep looking for it.

Also ~~
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Good luck!

Charles, were you able to determine if The Toothpaste Millionaire was your book?

The Toothpaste Millionaire is available at the Internet Archive. You need to be a member to "take out" books, but membership is free; you only need to give them an internet address.