The joy of a young bookworm

Funny Miss Twiggley

lived in a tree,

with a dog named Puss

and a color TV.



She did what she liked

and she liked what she did,

but when company came,

Miss Twiggley hid.



So begins my favourite book from childhood – recalled from memory. Yes, I re-read Miss Twiggley’s Tree, by Dorothea Warren Fox, so many times I had it memorized. Alas, those two paragraphs are all I can recite