interrante@iagvax.decnet (07/24/85)
From: IAGVAX::INTERRANTE <interrante@iagvax.decnet> been able to find that title in any library. I read it in my elementary school library 10 or 14 years ago. The paperback had a cover with a boy wearing wings falling from a window in a roof. I'd like to read it again for nostalgia's sake, and perhaps to find out what else the author's written. Can you help me? Our boy's father was a show magician (the Swami?) who died a few years ago. One day the boy goes up to explore the attic and discovers a bottle of milky white fluid. Somehow he finds out it's a magic elixir to give you wings and the ability to fly. He rubs a few drops of the fluid on his shoulders and he does grow a pair of wings! The only way to get away and try the wings without anyone seeing them is to jump out through the attic window, so that's our cover painting scene. The rest of the book has him flying around & having fun, but like all good things it must eventually come to an end. I remember he liked to say things like "For Peter's sake!" John Interrante (General Electric CRD at Schenectady, NY) ARPANET: <interrante@iagvax.decnet>@ge-crd "*It* came from Schenectady..." ------