This was one of my favorite books as a kid — we read it for a book report in elementary school, and I reread it over and over for years after that. When I saw a copy at a book sale for a dollar — with the same cover I remembered! — I knew it was time to reread it again. It’s held up wonderfully. “I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks […]