The stories essentially match her age, from about 3 years old, onward. They also generally match her activities and interests along the way. When, for example, she was scared and nervous to go down a slide, I created a story about that.

Super Boone is a very smart golden retriever who not only talks English, but he has to ability to talk to all other animals in their specific animal language. He is very friendly, like all golden retrievers, and every creature loves him.

All the animals are friendly and get along with Super Boone.

My fingers don’t work very well, and get tired with a lot of typing, so the scenarios in many of the stories repeat each other because it is very easy to copy and paste blocks of text, and having sections repeat themselves helped Mary fall asleep.

I have a terrible memory, so I tried to make things as easy as possible to remember: When Super Boone looks for something, his searching follows a predictable pattern of North, East, West, and South. “NEWS”, easy to remember (the first letter of the word would spell NEWS)!

Most of the objects or events that Super Boone searches for come in three’s, and those objects or events are also mostly in alphabetical order.

My mother-in-law taught me a trick that she learned from having four children and eight grandchildren. She taught me that lulling children to sleep is best done with slower, softer, and monotone speech.

Mary would fall asleep quickly to these stories, either from the story, my voice, or a combination of both.

Like I said, I started telling her Super Boone stories when she was about 3 years old, and she is now ten, and still asks for them almost every night.

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