I was wandering around the Twitter-verse last night after midnight and I found a hashtag that I decided to follow. One of the things I found triggered a memory so I thought I would share for the boys.

A Time-Travel Story

The daily prompt I encountered was, “Name a time-travel story you enjoyed”. I began thinking of the time-travel stories I’ve read – quite a few. I wrote one of my own so it helps to know what’s already out there. My brain settled on one book in particular and here’s the memory it triggered.

My “Perfect Book at the Perfect Time”

When I was a child, my love of time travel stories was kicked off by Andre Norton with her book Octagon Magic from her The Magic Books series. It’s one of the earliest books I ever remember reading. I lived in a small, rural town that didn’t have a public library at the time (at least not that I can remember). I don’t even remember having a school library at that time! Our library “service” came via a pamphlet in the mail every month. I couldn’t wait for that pamphlet to arrive!! I would pore over all the books marking ones I would like to read. I wonder if my mom ever missed that pamphlet? I’m not sure she saw enough of them to know we were getting them because I swiped them!

Anyway, at that time, you would choose your book(s), mail the order back in and in a few weeks you’d get your book to read. #OldSkool

I may or may not have gotten the book through the mail service. I really don’t remember how I got access to that book but I suspect it was that service. (However, my mom was working on her Bachelor degree to be a school librarian so it could just as easily come from her!) I never read any other book in the series and don’t remember even knowing it was a series until I was an adult and looked for that book again. In fact, I don’t think I ever read another Andre Norton book. If I did, it didn’t leave an impression like this one did. There’s nothing like the perfect book at the perfect time!

My Wish For You

My wish for you is that you find your “perfect book at the perfect time” sooner rather than later, and that you find many “perfect books” during your lifetime. A quick recommendation for my grandsons: the author Jon Scieszka. His goal in writing is to create books for boys who don’t necessarily like to read.

Happy reading,

Grandma, aka Lisa @ Days of Our Lives blog