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Child's (the Clarice Bean books) droll tale introduces the "frightfully, frightfully" rich Mr. and Mrs. Bobton-Trent, who dine out nearly every night and hobnob with "simply everyone who was anyone." When they "want to meet someone new," they have a child. Their clever offspring, Hubert, telephones his parents at the age of one, reads at two and-when he tumbles into the pool at age three-discovers that he is "a natural swimmer." The scatterbrained couple is oblivio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More