When I was young, I read books of SF and of fantasy as well as science fact voraciously. One thing I noticed was that there were commonly books that had children as protagonists – such as Edward Eager's Half Magic, or Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It, or the much more famous Narnia chronicles by C. S. Lewis – but often if anything fantastic or wondrous happened     to the children, it was something treated as a secret – something that couldn't be told to the adults.        This didn't exactly fit with my mindset. My [ Continue reading... ]