Our company encouraged us to wear a costume on Halloween Day. I had in my closet a dress with huge printed white flowers. Since I am very short, I had never worn it. (It had been given to me by a relative.) Still, I realized that the large flowers were just the sort of thing that Ms Frizzle would have on one of her dresses.

I also had a pair of heeled sandles, into which I could slip a real white flower. I cut two flowers from the ones in our garden on Halloween morning. I took those to work, wearing my Ms Frizzle style dress. Before going to the afternoon costume party, I put a flower in each of my shoes.

I was not sure that everyone would know that I was supposed to be Ms. Frizzle. Yet that was not my biggest concern. I wanted to encourage literacy. Consequently, I pinned to my dress a small sign that said “Family Literacy Day, November 1st.”