What a wonderful book with which to start the thread. It was one of my favourites as a child, and even as an adult decades later, I still think of it when I am having one of *those* days. The thought of it has often brought at least a small smile to my lips when I am feeling too stressed to smile about much.
I've sometimes wondered how it would be re-written if it were ever to be sold in Oz. To my ears, at least, "Some days are like that...Even in the United States" (or Canada, or ...) just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
