Not only did I have them all, I rebought them as an adult and still have them in the basement. And reread them about 20 years ago. My daughter loves them too, so I pretend we are saving them for when she gets her teaching certificate.

And Dave and Burt have no discernable personalities in canon, so I could go to town with them. OCs almost. Like Brokeback Mountain, but that would be too angsty. I could write Scrapedknuckle Hill.