To some, Wishbone may sound like a simple children’s show about a dog with a big imagination. But for those of us who remember it, the show was much more than that. It was a doorway into stories that many children might have otherwise avoided, feared, misunderstood or never discovered at all. It took names like Homer, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made them feel exciting, funny, dramatic and