LiterariLeigh

Flashback! When I was a kid, getting up for school Monday through Friday was always hard. Morning always came too soon. But on Saturdays, there was a very important reason to be up early- Saturday morning cartoons! My favorite part was watching Schoolhouse Rock in between shows- do you remember singing along with "A noun is a person, place or thing", "Conjunction junction" and "I'm just a bill"? I can still sing the preamble to the constitution.

I Can See Clearly Now by Brendan Halpin is a fun novel set in 1972 New York City about a group of young people hired to write educational but hip jingles. These songs will run in a series called Pop Goes the Classroom and will air between cartoons on Saturday mornings (sound familiar?). Sarah is shy, Peter soulful, Levon's stage name is Apollo Von Funkenburg, and only Julie really understands the business. Taking lead of the group is semi-famous folksinger Pamela Sanchez, whose free spirited ways do not exactly mesh with the corporate world of television. It all seems like an Age of Aquarius dream, until relationships and deadlines become a very vivid reality. Forcast: Warm and Sunny. And I'd love to hear the "Funky solar system" song!