[PW] Children's book from late 40s or early 50s

[Dennis Lien]

At 12:46 PM 2/6/2008, you wrote:
>Hi All--
>I'm looking for a children's book citation.  I think "Triplets" is in
>the title, but I could be wrong; however, the plot is that a new
>family moves in across the street from the little boy protagonist
>(who, as I remember, dresses in blue clothes that somewhat resemble a
>cub scout uniform).  He sees a little red-haired girl, with freckles,
>who looks to be his own age.  The moving van is still there, and I
>think he offers to help carry things inside.  It takes him a long time
>to realize that there are three identical redheads.
>
>This would have been published at latest around 1951, 1952, because I
>read it at four or five.  A larger size soft-bound book, as I recall;
>maybe it was printed on cloth?  I thought it might have been titled,
>_Tommy and the Triplets_, but a search turned up nothing.
>
>Any clues?
>
>Metta,
>Ivan


Negative evidence: none of the hits on keyword  triplets  on the site
of Loganberry Books (a children's book identification board/database)
match the plot description.

If PW doesn't solve it and you want to pursue, you might post the
query to Loganberry; they charge $2 to post but have a good success
rate.

http://www.loganberrybooks.com/stump.html

Usual discliamer: I have no connection with the site (other than
sometimes supplying answers) and certainly no financial stake in them.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu