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

[Dana Dalrymple]

Not that this helps much, but I remember a story in one of my elementary
school readers (1970s) with this same plot line, except that the little
red-haired girls were quadruplets.  The boy finally sees all of them
together.  Maybe someone just came up with the same plot...

Dana Dalrymple
Reference Librarian
Spokane Public Library


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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
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