FAMILY GRANDSTAND

by Carol Ryrie Brink ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 10, 1952

Delightful family adventures of a midwestern university professor's noisy brood and their college town neighbors. The five mirth rousing Ridgeways live in a house that has a tower overlooking the football stadium and lead lives that swing around games and victories, baby sitting for faculty children, birthday parties, maintaining ""academic dignity"", a star quarterback about to flunk chemistry and having a child prodigy in the family. Cleverly interwoven threads of the story create side splitting scenes as varsity hero Tommy is coached through exams by the Ridgeways' student house-keeper Dorothy, as twelve year old Susan artfully maneuvers two young neighbors to bed in a burst of very wise baby sitting, as ten year old George finally gains his father's permission to park cars in their back yard on game days at 25¢ per, as the six year old prodigy Dumping bewails her status until it's found that the University child study clinic had made a mistake. There are tender moments too, vigorous, uncontrived episodes and language that call a spade a spade- a sure fire chronicle of a healthiest of healthy families.

Pub Date: Oct. 10, 1952

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1952

Categories: FICTION