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Speedy Digs Downside Up
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SOLVED. Children's book about digging a hole from Pennsylvania to Tasmania. [s]
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Jan 31, 2020 07:12PM
A book from my childhood, read in the 1960s.
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Was it a picture book or a child's novel?
it was a child's story, more than a picture book.
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New York Times review: "This is the story- I hope it's true-/ Of Speedy Horatio Alger LaRue/ And the wonderful things he was able to do." To call Speedy's accomplishments wonderful is an understatement, for he can dig like no other fictional 8-year-old. Night after night, for a year, he digs from Pennsylvania clear through the earth to Tasmania, encountering problems all the way, not the least of which is the force of gravity."
https://books.google.com/advanced_boo... > All of the words: dig Pennsylvania Tasmania children | Books | English
