Book Review: 'D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths'
(C) 1962 by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire. Renewed 1990 by Per Ola D'Aulaire and Nils M.P. D'Aulaire. In 1974, when I was 11 years old, my mom and I used to visit her friend Olga at a townhouse in the then-still new South Florida suburban community called Kendall. At the time, Olga was married to an Airlift Airlines pilot and World War II veteran named Joe. Joe was still flying, and Olga would often invite us to keep her and her three teen sons company while he was away. The youngest of the boys was only three years older than I was, and because I acted a bit more mature than most kids my age, he didn't mind when his mom asked him to hang out with me while she and my mom chatted out on the patio of Olga and Joe's Kendall townhouse and drank adult beverages. To entertain me, Mike - I think that was his name, anyway - would often show me his collection of World War II models and dioramas; most of them were Revell kits of planes such as the P-51 Mustang an...
