Deda: Books of Pogo comic strips have recently been reprinted. They go at least up to Volume 11, and I think they cover the entire "canon." I think some of the volumes may already be out of print.

However, I remember as a kid having a book called the Pogo Peek-A-Book that consisted of stories that had never been printed in the newspaper. I think the stories were parodies of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. I don't think that one has been reprinted, but I see that used copies are available for around $30.

My son may not know Pogo, but he knows Calvin and Hobbes, which may be just as good.

Let's cut the kids some slack. They may not know Cinderella, but they know Star Wars and Harry Potter, which didn't even exist when we were kids. Unless you're going to suppress such things as Star Wars and Harry Potter, how are you going to prevent one kind of culture from supplanting another?

Our parents (those who were literate, anyway – mine weren't) probably bemoaned the fact that kids were no longer reading "Little Women," "Ragged Dick," and the Waverly novels. But if we hadn't given them up, how would we have had time for Pogo, Ray Bradbury, "The Catcher in the Rye," and "To Kill a Mockingbird" – all of which didn't exist when my parents were kids. Plus ça change…