When I saw the cropped image on her home page, I knew where it came from.
I knew immediately who it was: The Great Brain. (I just read one of John D. Fitzgerald’s books, Me and My Little Brain, in 2018–that long ago? Already?)
In her post Boys Are Falling Behind While We Look Away: How to get boys into reading so they can start catching up, she recommends the series.
And I recommended it, along with the Hardy Boys and whatnot, to my boys. But they never cottoned onto it. Although they “read” a bunch when they were younger, before they got iPhones “for school,” they didn’t cotton onto either series which was a staple of my youth. What they read were the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants, and other juvenile semi-comic books which, it turns out, did not really train them to read but rather for short attention span entertainment. Like iPhones.
