This enchanting trip down memory lane captures the imaginative and hope-filled desires of the author as a little girl, fueled by the TV shows and movies she watched in the early 1960's. The memoir is wry and humorous and contains numerous scenes that both capture well the color and character of the times, painting pictures of kindness, cruelty, heartbreak and hypocrisy, by showing not telling the reader. She lets the stories speak for themselves, making them all the more powerful. Her memoir of a little girl filled with imagination and hope not only conveys the time and place vividly but also the perspective and character of the little girl she was. These are timeless lessons to be read and discussed for ages. Really, a very fine piece of writing.