Back in 1998 in the comparatively early days of the internet in schools, I made friends with a school librarian in Birmingham, Alabama. first met her, when she was on a school tour to Australia and later attended a conference in Birmingham in 1999, then she and her husband kindly drove over to Charleston to meet me and my sister in 2007 and we met again in Chicago in 2010. So we are still good friends but back in 1998/9 I excitedly told one of our teachers who was beginning to study TKAMB with his class that we could set up an exchange with students in Birmingham. I was disappointed when the reply came from my friend that they do not discuss that book in her school.