"I love these stories," exclaimed 8-year-old Emma with a big grin, as her grandpa read Skating To The End Of The World to her. Unexpectedly, she pulled the book out of his hand. "Now I want to read it to you."
Then she stopped, suddenly philosophical. "But I don't think those adventures could have really have happened. He must have made them up."
Well, Emma, they really did happen, but it was definitely in a different and simpler age,...