DilDeewana is right, it’s so good! So very very good! It’s got a radical social message, it’s got a Jerk Man who is accurately described as a Jerk Man, and it has a loving kind grandfather. And a heroine who is an odd fit with girls her own age but discovers the joys of maturity.

This is cool, Maud Hart Lovelace died on March 11. So we will be discussing her book almost exactly 41 years after her death.