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PROLOGUE

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

A child’s imagination is infinite. Children look at life with unblemished eyes.
After writing two books of poetry, accompanied by her own drawings, Margaret
is presenting us with this book, her first steps into writing stories.
The monsters that sometimes haunt children’s dreams (whether daydreams
or nightmares) are one of the topics children like to read about. If you want to
know how to do away with them, you should read “How to Defeat Monsters”.
Elementary school experiences are sometimes unforgettable. Margaret has
turned into fiction the pranks our classmates play on others (and sometimes on
us), embarrassing or happy moments, the first friend, our teachers. All these
can be relived in “An Odd Grade Four” or “The Tennis Tournament”. Moreover,

there are vignettes with life lessons so that we don’t forget.

I invite you to find light reading, reading for fun in these pages. I give my
greetings to Margaret for her approach to look at life and to picture it through
her drawings.

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