Happy Birthday Kit: A Springtime Story, 1934 (American Girl Collection) - Hardcover

Tripp, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158485023X ISBN 13: 9781584850236

Publisher: Amer Girl Pub, 2001

Synopsis

As her tenth birthday approaches, Kit knows that there won't be a party since her father doesn't have a job and money is tight, but when her Aunt Millie comes to visit, her thriftiness and good ideas make for an excellent birthday celebration! Simultaneous.

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Reviewed with Valerie Tripp's Kit Saves the Day.

Gr. 3-5. Children reading the Depression-era series about Kit from the American Girls collection will welcome books 4 and 5. In Happy Birthday , Kit has mixed feelings when Aunt Millie comes to live with her family. On the one hand, she enjoys Aunt Millie's affectionate, cheerful manner and thrifty ideas. On the other hand, Kit is sometimes embarrassed by her elder's lack of concern for appearances. In Saves the Day , readers get a glimpse of the darker side of Depression life. When a young hobo befriends Kit's family, she forms a romanticized view of life in a hobo camp. Kit revises her opinion when she visits the camp, hops a freight train on a dare, and ends up in jail. Appealing color illustrations help establish the period, which is considered in greater detail in the appended "Looking Back" section of social history. Two entertaining entries in a popular series. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Girl Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 158485023X
• ISBN 13: 9781584850236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 67
• Illustrator: Rane Walter, McAliley Susan