One of my childhood friends was Theodore Deppe, who's now an outstanding poet. Our block was packed with kids and we played enormous games that covered whole blocks of territory, with ten kids to a side. Pooh believed in a spoonful of honey, but Mary Poppins did not. My parents strongly disapproved of the Disney version of things. A shocking book! And I remember Mary Poppins and Winnie the Pooh in my father's voice and a bunch of other things that weren't movies yet. And before I could read myself, I remember my father reading The Iliad to me, although really he was reading it to my older brother, I just got to be there. The day I got my first library card there was a special dinner to celebrate. Along with basketball, my family loved books. My mother was a polio survivor, a schoolteacher, and a pioneer in the co-operative nursery school movement. He studied animal behavior, and especially learning. My father was a psychologist at the University, but not that kind of psychologist. I was due on Valentine's Day but arrived a week early my mother blamed this on a really exciting IU basketball game. Karen Joy Fowler Karen Joy Fowler Autobiography
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