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From: Caroline Parr <CParr>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:38:57 -0400
Something recently prompted me to revisit E.C. Spykman's marvelous four-book series about the Cares children that begins with "A Lemon and a Star." Jane is the much-put-upon main character in the first book, but attention soon shifts to Edie, star of the later "Terrible, Horrible Edie." The four Cares children might have lived an upper-class life outside Boston in the early 1900s, but they are each as real as any child living today. Their stepmother, known as Madam, is an extraordinary character in her own right.
The series, originally published in the 1950s, was reissued by Gregg Press in the 1980s with a sympathetic introduction by Sarah L. Rueter.
Caroline S. Parr Coordinator of Youth Services Central Rappahannock Regional Library 1201 Caroline St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540-372-1160 www.LibraryPoint.org
Received on Tue 30 Jun 2009 12:38:57 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:38:57 -0400
Something recently prompted me to revisit E.C. Spykman's marvelous four-book series about the Cares children that begins with "A Lemon and a Star." Jane is the much-put-upon main character in the first book, but attention soon shifts to Edie, star of the later "Terrible, Horrible Edie." The four Cares children might have lived an upper-class life outside Boston in the early 1900s, but they are each as real as any child living today. Their stepmother, known as Madam, is an extraordinary character in her own right.
The series, originally published in the 1950s, was reissued by Gregg Press in the 1980s with a sympathetic introduction by Sarah L. Rueter.
Caroline S. Parr Coordinator of Youth Services Central Rappahannock Regional Library 1201 Caroline St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540-372-1160 www.LibraryPoint.org
Received on Tue 30 Jun 2009 12:38:57 PM CDT
