It’s the first day back at school for children throughout the America and many other places.
Do you remember your first day? Any of your first days?
So much excitement, and a little fear. So many questions, new friends, new clothes, new lunch boxes.
For those of us readers it might have been the beginning of the wonderful love affair with the printed word, and the magic of books. where the struggle of deciphering the squiggles on the page led to the discovery of worlds and universes, demons and princesses and so much more.
In honor of this first day spare a thought for all those starting a new year and spend a moment with a boy wizard who some of us grew up with and shared his school memories,
