Why can leap year babies turn 50?
“Legend says Superman was born on February 29 because he never seems to age. DC Comics even minted a commemorative coin when Superman turned 50 on Feb. 29, 1988. If you’re good with math, though, you’ll see a problem. Leap year babies can’t turn 50 on their actual birthdays. They would have to be either 48 or 52 because 50 cannot be divided by four (and 1938 was not a leap year.)” Source Ebsco Host Research Database, Boys Life, Feb. 2004 Are there novels that feature a leap year plot? I searched Novelist, an on-line guide to fiction, which is available on the library’s Web site. I entered leap year into the search field, and it returned 250 titles, from children’s to adult books, that feature leap year as part of the plot of the story. Some of the titles listed include The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes (adult), Angels Unaware by Elizabeth Storm (adult), Roscoe’s Leap by Gillian Cross (young adult), and Webster’s Leap by Eileen Dunlop (children). All of these titles are available at your T
