Description
Good dust jacket, a dust jacket protector has been added, chipping along the top, wear at the bottom edge, fade to the spine. The Very Good+ binding is red cloth over boards, white line illustration of a poodle on the cover, white lettering and illustrations on the spine, light toning to the endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Fine black-and-white illustrations by Flavia Gag can be found throughout the book.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
It was a lively winter when Chérie the poodle (rechristened Cherry by Ricky) came to live with the Davenports. The Davenports and their family radio program were well known all over Connecticut and nearby states. Everyone sympathized with their difficulties, living seven in a made-over barn, especially when mice and rats began to plague them.
Already the Davenports were crowded, and when they took in a kitten, and a poodle, when Lyn became seriously ill, family life became more and more complicated. It was always interesting and exciting, however, from Christmas week when the children were “on their own,” to the television program in which Cherry took part, There is the same action, humor and understanding of children as in the first book about this family.
This is a Junior Literary Guild selection, outstanding book for boys chosen as an and girls (A Group).
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
Alice Dalgliesh has written a great many books for children and young people. In the winter she lives in New York City and is Editor of Children’s Books for Charles Scribner’s Sons. Summers are spent in her two-hundred-year-old house in Brookfield, Connecticut. “Penny Brook” in this story is a composite of Brookfield and several other Connecticut towns.
About the illustrator:
Flavia Gag was an author, artist, writer and illustrator of eight children’s books; she also illustrated 14 books and numerous stories for juvenile magazines. Flavia loved to paint nature and specialized in watercolor paintings of landscapes, animals and flowers. Wanda Gag House
