![]() ![]() Long used as shorthand for a bland, patriarchal, suburban type of nostalgia, I actually feel like “Leave it to Beaver”, the TV series, has mostly been reevaluated, with its stubbornly child’s point of view, well-meaning fatherly advice that unerringly causes more problems than it solves, mom who often seems to be on her last nerve, and of course obnoxious teenage hipster Eddie Haskell. ![]() In 1960-61, Cleary was the obvious choice to adapt “Beaver” into a series of tie-in novelizations to the TV show. When I have reviewed Beverly Cleary’s work here in the past, I have opened by invoking “Leave It To Beaver,” and it’s not just because both works present a kid-centric view of growing up in the 1950s and 60s.
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