re: #58 The Pie Overlord!

As a kid (which was many many years ago), I read all of the discontinued titles except for “Cat’s Quizzer.” So that tells you these books are really, really old.

I missed out on so many books like this. I learned how to read the summer between kindergarten and 1st grade and I read EVERYTHING. When my 1st grade teacher found out I was going home every day and reading the newspaper, she would not allow me to check out books with mostly pictures and some words. So that ruled out Dr. Seuss, Winnie The Pooh, Goodnight Moon, etc. etc. etc. I had to run my books by her to make sure they were sufficiently hard according to her. Part of that was because my mother dug in her heels and refused to let the school move me to third grade. (“She’s already the smallest kid in the 1st grade, why would I do that to her?”) I was held to a higher standard.

What I really could have done with is some therapy for autism spectrum disorders. But no, I was just considered smart, weird and antisocial.