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

Ivan Van Laningham ivanlan9 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 09:45:14 PST 2008


Or I could have mis-remembered.  Do you have details?

Metta,
Ivan

On Feb 7, 2008 10:35 AM, Dana Dalrymple <ddalrymple at spokanelibrary.org> wrote:
> 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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