Re: Help ID/Find book--"Copper Kettle"

Crumbs, I always forget to click "reply group" rather than "reply"


Yes, that was Mason as well.  The little girl's uncle promises her his lucky
lion's tooth if she can get her apple tree to produce fruit and make him a
pie. She was quite a prolific writer, and often had well known illustrators
working with her on her books. Most have lapsed into obscurity--I believe
Caroline and Middle Sister were reprinted by Scholastic which may account
for their making more of an impression. She also wrote a story called whose
name escapes me right now, but has to do with a little boy who wants to be
taller, he falls in a pond wearing his new buckskin suit, and then naps in
the sun, when he awakes the suit has shrunk and he thinks he has become a
giant. This story is probably better remembered through its appearance in
the New Basic Reader More Friends and Neighbors


Donna Pedaci
Dragonfly Books

"Lenona321" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >Hello! The book is Caroline and her Kettle Named Maud and is by Miriam
Mason
>
> >Donna Pedaci
>
> Good book about making the best of what you get in life - she didn't
"choose"
> the kettle, as I remember, it was simply given to her when she was hoping
for a
> rifle. She then gets the chance to use the kettle as a weapon against a
wolf!
>
> Didn't Mason also write "The Middle Sister," which is about a girl who has
to
> protect an apple tree and its fruit against all sorts of threats so she
can
> earn a lion's tooth that she thinks will make her brave?
>
> Lenona.
>
>