Did you ever bring the class hamster home and have it disappear down the mouse hole? Or strike out on the last of the ninth with the bases loaded? Do you remember how it felt the day you came home from school and found out your mother had just thrown away your grasshopper collection when she didn't even know you were collecting grasshoppers?These, and dozens of other miserable situations like them, are here depicted in deceptively simple line drawings with psychologically sensitive captions, in warm and nostalgic terms, turning misery then into warm and eye-moistening laughter now.