This is the grave of James Haskins. Born in 1941 in Demopolis, Alabama, Haskins and his family moved to Boston in about 1953, where he graduated from high school. The kid was brilliant from the time he was small. He didn't have a lot of...
children’s books
This is the grave of Hugh Lofting. Born in 1886 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, Lofting grew up fairly well off in a family that would spawn a lot of success..
One of the most interesting genres of books one finds on Gutenberg is old children's books. I first found these interesting when in doing some research, I had to read.
R.A. Montgomery, author of the Choose Your Own Adventure children's book series, has died. It is impossible to overstate how awesome these books were when I was 10 or 11 years old. Hopefully, Montgomery's path to Heaven or Hell doesn't include such similarly precarious choices...