Roger's Book Bag

Harry Potter is all well and good, but kids need to read the classics as well. I'm speaking, of course, of Freddy the Detective. Walter R. Brooks, a master of the genre, didn't need 850 pages to tell his tale of crime and punishment on the Bean farm. Of course, Walter didn't have a word processor or his own media empire, so he was probably content with knocking out 250 pages and calling it a day.

Some of the greatest writers of our age owe a huge debt to the visionary Mr. Brooks.