Once upon a time long, long ago and far, far away (for everything that we remember from our childhoods seems long ago and far away, and history's nothing but a story that's older than we are) a book was written  for children.  The fact that is was written in New York in 1865, and not in Holland at all, doesn't matter.  The fact that it isn't true doesn't matter either.   Nor is there a  Tinkerbelle,  nor a Peter… Continue reading