I read this book over and over and am lucky enough to still own my childhood copy, so I am pretty positive this is the one. Two settings on a dial - O for "Ordinary" and M for "Mischief" take the place of the usual oven gauge. Life grows hilariously complicated for everyone in the family when the children experiment with the recipe for boiled eggs which will render the eater invisible.
Card catalog description: A boy becomes worried when the machine he receives from a TV celebrity keeps growing and the people in the city want to make it king.
ISBN: I saw the listing for my book query today and was so excited to find the book had already been identified. Thank you so much for your help. My wife and I don't know where he gets this we're a couple of book-nerd professors at the U of Utah ; but when he recently become enthusiastic about robots, too--I thought, 'here's my chance to share with him a book I loved from my childhood. I had all but given up hope when I found Loganberry books and you.
I am so grateful to you. This will be such a wonderful xmas present for both my son and me. Thanks again and happiest of holidays. These three are all classified as "preprimers.
It seems to be Book 1 in the "California State Series. The entry under Macmillan Reading Program in your "solved" section seems to indicate that someone would like more information about these books. When I started teaching first grade in we used this series of readers.
