Here’s another of those books that I wish I had written, not because it’s a great work of literature but because somebody had to do it and really, it looks like it was ridiculously easy.

“Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?” written by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Brian Bellmont, might have been a years-long labor of love by the authors. Truthfully, it looks and reads like it took about a week to put together.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Seriously, the authors’ bite-sized bits of pop culture history — the book is subtitled “The lost toys, tastes and trends of the 70s and 80s” — is the print equivalent of VH1’s addictive “I Love the 80s” series and its many spinoffs.

They’ve taken a few dozen topics — lawn darts, Judy Blume, John Hughes movies, and the title snack, pitched by favorite TV dad Bill Cosby — and turned out a couple hundred words on each. Pudding Pops were revived in 2004 but just weren’t the same, the authors say. I’ll have to take their word for it.

There’s not a lot of there there, if you know what I mean. And I can’t imagine actually buying this book — about the size of an old issue of TV Guide; how’s that for nostalgia? — for the $12.95 price.

But in the grand tradition of books you read in the bathroom, it’s fun enough.