SOURCE: "Nothing but the Facts—of Life," in The New York Times Book Review, September 23, 1973, p. 8.

In the following excerpt, Breasted offers a largely negative assessment of Where Did I Come From?

[Where Did I Come From? The Facts of Life without Any Nonsense and with Illustrations] is, as a matter of fact, sprinkled with giggly phrases and sentences and illustrated by such risible pictures that, all told, one has to say it did not leave out the nonsense. It does explain both anatomy and sexual intercourse more expansively [than other such books for children]. But it is filled with little parenthetical asides that seem to destroy the whole point of the book, the explanation of sex and reproduction without awkwardness or embarrassment. When explaining anatomy, the book tells us our parents "are not made at all the same way. You've probably noticed that already, but you notice...