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Whenever Penny and his adopted brother Peter decide to help their parents, they usually end up in trouble.Tags
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I think my favorite character is Patsy, the talkative little girl next door. My favorite episode here is probably the bit with Tootsie and the Christmas tree... but you'll have to read it to understand because if I said anything it would be much too spoilery!
Ah, the old days, when an ordinary family could have a (apparently live-in) cook, and a summer cottage, and etc.... But they're good folks and work hard and don't squander, so I guess they deserve it.
I'm a bit concerned about the dialect of the cook, but it's surely realistic. And there are no other signs of racism, not even a description or illustration of her.
Ah, the old days, when an ordinary family could have a (apparently live-in) cook, and a summer cottage, and etc.... But they're good folks and work hard and don't squander, so I guess they deserve it.
I'm a bit concerned about the dialect of the cook, but it's surely realistic. And there are no other signs of racism, not even a description or illustration of her.
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Author and illustrator Carolyn Haywood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 3, 1898. She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and the Philadelphia Normal School in 1922. After teaching one year at the Friends Central School, she received a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While there, she studied show more portrait painting for three years, spent one year studying in Europe, and came back to study illustration. Her first children's book, When I Grow Up, was published in 1931. She is best known for her books in the Betsy and Eddie series. The first book, B Is for Betsy, was published in 1939. Her other works include Snowbound with Betsy, Hello, Star, and Eddie's Friend, Boddles. Besides writing and illustrating her own books, she also painted children's portraits and painted murals in banks and schools in the Philadelphia area. She received the distinction of a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania in 1969 and received the Pennsylvania Librarians Outstanding Pennsylvania Author Award in 1970. She stopped illustrating her own books in the 1970's, but started writing adult books including Book of Honor, a collection of biographies of famous Pennsylvanian women. She died of a stroke on January 11, 1990 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Penny and Peter
- Original title
- Penny and Peter
- Original publication date
- 1946
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- Genres
- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
- LCC
- PZ7 .H31496 .P — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 10
