What ever happened to Myrtle the Turtle
Or Horton who heard a Who?
Remember the Little Golden Book characters?
Their adventures abroad, at home, at the zoo?
Curious George, the Gingerbread Man,
The Velveteen Rabbit, The Little Red Hen
Time to review the classics, the basics
Be a child again.

And don’t forget Peter Pan, Wind in the Willows, and The Secret Garden. The Child’s Garden of Verses and The Hundred Acre Wood of Winnie ther’ Pooh (the way I remember it spelled. The latter two were my earliest entry into literature. Tweeted.