I loved these books when I was young,
The thought of fighting crime;
And in them, traveled ’round the world
And decades back in time
I loved to solve each mystery
To defend right and truth;
As Frank and Joe became my friends
And I became a sleuth
And with these two friends by my side
We faced a thousand scrapes:
For every mystery we solved
There were six great escapes
We helped out old man Applegate,
We went to Baffin Bay;
But some there are who still don’t know
The force of child’s play
To read and to imagine is
Our powers to extend –
For us to become anything
At first, we must pretend
