Will You Please Just Go Out and Play!: Before Safety Helmets, Sunscreen, and play dates: Fun with Cod liver oil, lighter fluid, TNT salutes, and other delightful toys from the 1940s.

When Mothers wanted to get their kids out their hair, they sent them out to play. Little did they know what mischief, shenanigans, and devilry, the little darlings could concoct. If you long to relive the childhood days of the 1940s before kids were wrapped in helmets, sunscreen, safety belts, and bubble wrap, when a prank meant “boys will be boys,” then you have just grown old but not grown up and this is the book for you. Just don’t let the grandchildren read it. Jacobitti recalls here a childhood filled with toys like TNT salutes, lighter fluid, 10-cent gliders, CO2 cartridges, and other things that went bang!