I used to believe that the Smarties book prize was when a writer won a packet of smarties for the boom they had written, even it probably means something about kids being smart when they are reading.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- i used to think that the red colourin gon Smarties was made from Beatles blood. In fact, I still do!!— pigsy
- i used to believe that smart people were smart because they drank a lot of teaAnon
- cause i'm just a paper bag rider....
or it might have been paperback writer by the beatles....Anon