Through the miracle of eBay, I own the same editions of the books that I read all those years ago. I grew up in Central Wisconsin with nary a synagogue in sight.) And then I found the sequel, PETER AND VERONICA, which detailed the burgeoning friendship between the former bully and her former nemesis.
I can’t tell you how many times I re-read that book. It was about why some people became bullies. It was a book about how adversaries didn’t always have to stay adversaries. This was a book set in a very tangible New York City. This was the first book I remember reading where I really noticed the characters. I’m more enlightened now.īut it wasn’t just this new take on bullying. I had only every dealt with the boy variety.** The idea that a girl could be a bully was imponderable.Ĭut me some slack. That alone made me want to read the book. When you’re in fourth grade and someone on the TV in your classroom is talking about someone not wearing pants… Well, trust me. The narrator read from the beginning of the book, which opens with a boy named Peter Wedemeyer chanting, “Veronica Gaaanz, doesn’t wear paaaants!” As soon as each episode ended, I would hightail it to the library and check it out.Ī book I remember very vividly from this show was VERONICA GANZ by Marilyn Sachs. Nature never was a fan of CALL OF THE WILD type books). Every book they described sounded awesome (except for the ones that involved Man vs. It was where I got all my book recommendations from. Without a real name, I tend to think of it as the Show That Changed My Life. A narrator would read a passage from the book while an illustrator drew the scene being read. It featured one or two children’s books per episode. There was a show on PBS in the late 70s, early 80s.
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