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Sorry folks. More death news, this time on the literary front. You may not have heard of author Donald Sobol. If you aren't in a certain age range, his books may not even be familiar to you. Sobol wrote "Encyclopedia Brown", a popular kids' detective series made popular during the 1960's and 1970's. He died recently in Miami of natural causes.
I remember reading them in my pre-teen years. Each one was a baffling mystery to be solved by the reader. I loved how gender neutral the characters and plots were, even though the key person was a boy, Leroy "Encyclopedia Brown. That's probably because he had an assistant, a plucky girl named Sally Kimball.
We talk about the amazing J.K. Rowling and her ability get kids reading again. I think that she had a lot of help from predecessors such as Sobol, who despite dozens of rejections, kept persevering until Encyclopedia Brown became a household name, just like Harry Potter.
I actually wouldn't mind reading them all again.
Carol