I cannot tell you how many of the Encyclopedia Brown books I read. I can tell you I enjoyed him so much that my mom and dad paid for me to attend a workshop with him in Pensacola, Florida when I was in seventh grade.
What was it I liked about the Boy Detective? I would say mostly it was because he was a boy detective. His dad, the Chief of Police for the Idaville Police Department, sometimes gets stumped on cases and brings his son in, how cool is that?
So, why did I start reading Sobol's books? Well my sister Shannon introduced me to them. Encyclopedia Brown helped me start quizzing myself while reading. Trying to see the clues that Encyclopedia saw, trying to beat the story to the punch line, sometimes I was right, a lot of the time I was wrong. It was fun :) Maybe I should introduce some of these short stories to my students and see how they like them. Compare and contrast it to some of Roald Dahl's short stories, like the one where the wife kills her detective husband with a leg of lamb and then feeds the weapon to the police force. What was the name of that story? I am going to have to find it for the class, I believe its in the book, "The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl."
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you know, i still have ALL the encyclopedia brown books, as well as some of donald j sobol's others. they make for good bathroom-time reading. also, i have the short stories by roald dahl book (as he is my favorite author). i think the story you are referring to with the wife and the leg of lamb is actually an alfred hitchcock, but i think i know the story you are thinking of. i'll look it up tonight and let you know. holla!
soo....i was wrong. i know, it's a shock to hear me admit it. the story you are thinking of is called "lamb to the slaughter" and the book i have is "the best of roald dahl". my favorite is "pig". it's about vegetarianism and is HILARIOUS. and definitely a little twisted (just like you!).
Dang! You got to it before me, I was sooooo gonna come in and give a link to the story sot that others could see Roald Dahl's name associated widdit, you know what I'm sayin? Word.
If you read Encyclopedia Brown whilst in the Jon, how do you figure out who did it?
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