Back In the Day

Before Matilda, before Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, When I was a child, there was Pippi Longstocking, full of danger. Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden were my mystery go-to books. You could not rouse me from their adventures with grappling hooks. I discovered Jo March in Little Women Christmas Day 1964. Robin Hood and Little John I was soon also rooting for. Atticus Finch in to Kill a Mockingbird was lovely to read. I devoured books the way a horse eats with a bag feed. Today children have so many heroes and super heroes. But back in the day, we did not have nearly as many. After I discovered science fiction and Guy Montag, I guess I started opening my horizons; then I had plenty.