Thus Gerald McBoing Boing was born, brought to life by a studio called United Productions of America as an animated cartoon. This delightful, rhyming story went on to win an Academy Award in 1951, and was briefly made available as a book at the time of the movie's release. His George Jetson-style father, turning gray, rushes to call Doctor Malone, who decrees there is no cure.
School is no help, either.
Outcast, forlorn, he runs away from home. Children will discover that sometimes it's our quirks that end up making us special.