Description
Very Good dust jacket has chipping at corners, a 1/2″ tear at upper edge, minor soiling. A mylar dust jacket has been added. Very Good+ binding is brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering and design on front, gilt lettering on spine. Decorated end papers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.7″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
It was a spring day when the new opportunity came to Janet Laidlaw. To make the sudden change from teaching to editing books for children-at first it took her breath away! But she decided to try it and her “office on Fifth Avenue” proved to be even more stimulating and exciting than she had anticipated.
While this is an entirely independent book. it continues the story of a writer, and an American-by-choice, that was begun in THE SILVER PENCIL. It is not entirely a story of writing or editing, though that is necessarily part of it, and its glimpses behind the scenes are written from first-hand experience. It is also the story of three girls living together of Cherry who keeps house for them, and David and Patsy, a younger boy and girl. There are the everyday adjustments of a group, as well as fun and heartaches and romance, Janet continues to- grow as a person and as an American, “taking root” in the state that
she chooses for her own.
