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Contents include: Chrissy by Bernice Thurman Hunter / Puff by E. Large soft cover, clean square and tight, flat spine, 176 pages, plus fold out poster at rear, fully illustrated through-out. # 003727 - The scan you see is the book you get. Cover Painting by Miyuki Tanobe Sizanne Cook, Lynn Johnston, Gisele Daigle, Judi Radford, Janine Minor, Robin Baird Lewis, Jacquie Allinson, Lauras Urquhart, William Kimber, Ian Carr, Marguerite Stone, Joyce Brdgett, Lesley Fairfield, Audrey Mayberry, ++ (illustrator). With nostalgic black-and-white photos from the era throughout, this treasure of a book offers an authentic, poignant glimpse into one family's struggle to stay together when the world around them was falling apart.Soft Cover. And soon, soon, she knows her parents will stop fighting, her hunger pangs will subside, and her family will laugh again. Yes, life is full of setbacks.īut through the eyes of Booky Thomson the world has an energetic, rosy tinge: there are street games to play at night with the neighbourhood kids butter and white sugar sandwiches important talks with her Grandpa riding the streetcar to her Aunt Susan's nut and candy shop and an oh-so-special afternoon at the talking picture show. Booky's father can't find work her mother is expecting another baby the bailiff keeps threatening to evict the family from their home and her older brother Arthur is terribly annoying. It's almost 1933 and the Great Depression has hit the east end of Toronto. Scatterbrained, incorrigible and irrepressible ― Booky will win you over in this Canadian classic set in Depression-era Toronto.
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