SNOWED UP

by Rosalie K. Fry ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, 1970

Snug and cosily Christmas-speckled is Pen Mynydd farm, like the story itself--of one nine-and-a-half and two almost twelves getting first into, then out of a wintry abandonment. With winsome abandon on Verity's part, though her fall in a drift made them miss the coach back to England. . . and nobody will know: Uncle Fred has delivered them safely to the bus-stop because Aunt Marian has broken her leg; capable Susan is staying in Wales to help out, and Mother expects them home Friday. Anna tries copying Susan's confident leadership being the responsible eldest now, but it isn't so easy to hole up inside a deserted house snowed up to the second floor with nothing but turnip-like ""swedes"" to eat. Australian Brian, their cousin, is clever, however, even if he is rather vague, and between stoking the fire and disinterring blizzard-buried sheep, he contrives a successful S.O.S. Meanwhile, Verity finds an old candle, an evergreen branch, and starts caroling--it's Old Christmas Day, January 6th--and Fred finds them all happy, resourceful, engrossed near the sheep in ""Away in a Manger"". . . .

Pub Date: Sept. 15, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION