An oldie but a very goodie. The author of the beloved Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books (amazingly still in print, hallelujah) marries and follows her husband to a chicken ranch on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state in the 1930s. She is not a happy farmer, and she writes of everything and everyone from Stove (number one on…
Read more She had also a disconcerting habit of reaching up under her dress and adjusting something in the vicinity of her navel and of reaching down the front of her dress and adjusting her large breasts.
[From the vaults at stabenow.com, Jul 19, 2010]
They are finally.
Finally.
Bringing Betty Macdonald's Nancy and Plum back into print. And with illustrations by Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of the Harry Potter books, no less.
Newly orphaned sisters Nancy and Plum are deposited into the untender care of the evil Mrs. Monday by their Uncle John. Even Uncle John's chauffeur wonders "why a boarding home for little children should have such a wicked-looking fence. Surely not just to keep the rolling lawns form oozing out into the road!" But Uncle John is so relieved he won't have to wash dishes and make doll clothes he doesn't see that Mrs. Monday has "a general appearance about as warm and motherly as a pair of pliers."
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