The rest of the series is complete crap, but there is something classic and wonderful about children digging through trash to find cups for their milk. To this day I remember that they kept their glass milk jug (!) cold in the nearby stream. This book was clearly the prelude to my post-apocalyptic...
When I was a kid I thought it would be cool to live on my own like in this book. That it would feasible to keep your milk cold from the river and live on sandwhich bread.I loved this book to pieces as a kid.