I loved both as well ... a good book is a good book - especially if it gets little ones reading (and not staring at a screen that reads for you).
I had no idea that Beverly Cleary was still alive — we have recently lost her and Norton Juster (Phantom Toolbooth). Will there there a third?
The owner of my hometown Funeral Home always said that death comes in threes.
I’ve noticed that ,most of the time, it does work that way.
Strange.