![]() ![]() Sturgeon (“The Fish”) decides to separate them after one too many of their spectacularly inventive pranks. ![]() When the series begins Bruno and Boots, best friends and roommates, are having a wonderful time until their headmaster Mr. Located somewhere near Toronto, this fictitious boy’s school was the home for many years (and seven books) of Bruno Walton and Melvin “Boots” O’Neal. There’s the Chalet School, there’s Hogwarts and, for me at least, there was always Macdonald Hall. There is something irresistible to a child about novels set at boarding schools. But no one – absolutely no one – received (and answered, it should be noted) more letters from me than Gordon Korman after I discovered his Bruno and Boots series that starts with This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! I kept this up for two or three years, probably from the age of nine to eleven, encouraged and provided with stamps by my parents. ![]() Almost any time I read and enjoyed a book, I would sit down and write to the author (provided they were living – though at my most fanciful stage there might have been some letters written to L.M. There were the usual ones to grandparents and pen pals but the bulk of my correspondence went to my favourite authors. ![]() When I was little, I used to write a lot of letters. ![]()
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