We went to dinner Saturday night and while we waited for our 7:45 seating time (late dinner like grownups!), we killed a few minutes in the ace used book store right down the street. While there I found The Seminoles by Sonia Bleeker! Ace! I read her whole series of books on Indian (as was) tribes when I was a kid! I had thought of trying to find one or two of these, but could not for the life of me think of what the author's name was. Beneficent! Can't find a pic of the one I got, but here are some others:
So that was nice. When I got in Monday, the first thing I had to do, natch, was find out via wiki anything I could on Ms Bleeker. Soon, though, my mind was to be blown and all time and space was sucked into a whirling vortex (was it?) when I found this, while perusing the World Wide Web (which is sort of a huge electrical library, of sorts):
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!
So, you mean to tell me that Sonia Bleeker was married to Herbert friggin' ZIM, the guy behind all the Golden Science books that I read a million times? Including THIS one, that I still have (along with Stars) right at hand at home, in case I am suddenly overtaken with the urge to check out Harry McNaught's paintings of cloud formations? Indeed, all the art for one of my dumb bands was scanned full on off this pup?
That is all to say that these two mellow scientists just sat around blithely rolling out books that I loved all day long? NO WAY!
And what else is exciting about all of this is that it gives me hope I will find the first book on Greek myths I ever read in Grade 2 - I have no idea what it was called and only a vague recollection of the cover (a sort of pale yellow sky in pic of some Olympians, maybe, facing to the left?), probably from the late 40's or 50's - but, regardless, it's out there somewhere!
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