Ellen Gilbert is a retired librarian. She has been doing GrandPals for about a hundred-million years, and thinks it’s the bee’s knees.

“Early on, Camryn was quick to point out that something I described as ‘blue’ was actually teal. I understood right away that this child was unusually precocious. We were delighted to discover that we share the same birthday — October 13 — and even though he is six and I am seventy-one, we are the best of pals.”