1. A review in The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Literature says the book is "very funny" and also that it has "zesty humor." (Book Review Digest: 856). Is this book funny as a whole?

Ernie says that Al Kiss's "jokes should be collecting social security." Did his jokes really get funnier after he started making his Heinrich jokes?

2. Why does Henry always seem to need to be in a close relationship with a girl? Does it have anything to do with his loss of his father? What reason did Earl T. Farr give for this behavior?

Was he right?

3. Were Henry and Valerie really in love with each other or were they in love with a romantic vision of love?

List the romantic rituals they engaged in such as the torn dollar. What did Henry find out later about it?

4. World War II took...