From: Greg Leitich Smith <greg_at_gregleitichsmith.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:42:26 -0500

When I was a kid (ca 2d-3d grade), my brother and I absolutely loved THE THREE INVESTIGATORS series. So much so that we were a little baffled at how kids could actually "get into" THE HARDY BOYS (although we -- or at least, I -- read those, too). TTI resonated with me, I think, because they were pre-drivers license kids: they had to do what they could with bikes and other bits of ingenuity of their own. The Hardy Boys, of course, were 17 and 18 and had cars and a father who was a cop...

I also enjoyed the DANNY DUNN series -- sort of light science fiction adventures. I never read them all, but always enjoyed the ones I did read. Some of them felt dated, even at the time, but I was willing to live with that :-).

More recently, I've enjoyed ANIMORPHS (which I understand is being reissued). They're sort of fun and have a really disturbing villain and premise, too, when you think about it...

I haven't read CIRQUE DU FREAK, but thought the movie was pretty good... Greg http://www.gregleitichsmith.com
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