Another one of those children's books we can't remember
Dates: 1/15/03,2:02 PM through 1/15/03,8:42 PM (3 postings)
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FROM: "Ricki Nordmeyer" <[removed]@skokielibrary.info>
REC'D: 1/15/03, 2:02 PM
A friend of mine has a library trustee who is looking for this children's book. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Ricki Nordmeyer
Skokie P.L.
I am looking for the name of a book that I remember from my childhood. The book is about a family of children who are left alone for the summer after their housekeeper is unexpectedly called away suddenly. The children end up inventing a sauce that is made from ketchup, grape juice, etc. and vitamin samples of their father's (he is some type of traveling salesman). They end up selling this sauce to the local grocer until the vitamins run out. The book probably would have been written between 1940 and 1980.
The kids live by a pond and go turtle hunting with rotting meat that they get from the local store (same place they end up selling the sauce). Everyone in town loves the sauce because it acts as an elixir (because of the vitamins).
the book was aimed at younger than young adult, but not a picture book. It was some sort of juvenile novel.
FROM: "Lesley K" <[removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 1/15/03, 4:52 PM
Undoubtedly WHILE MRS. COVERLET WAS AWAY, by Mary Nash. There is a whole
series about the four children and their various escapades.
>I am looking for the name of a book that I remember from my
>childhood. The book is about a family of children who are left alone for
>the summer after their housekeeper is unexpectedly called away suddenly.
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Lesley Knieriem [removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us
Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
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Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
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FROM: "Ricki Nordmeyer" <[removed]@skokielibrary.info>
REC'D: 1/15/03, 8:42 PM
Ricki Nordmeyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley K [[removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:41 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Another one of those children's books we can't remember
At 01:51 PM 1/15/03 -0600, you wrote:
Undoubtedly WHILE MRS. COVERLET WAS AWAY, by Mary Nash. There is a whole
series about the four children and their various escapades.
>I am looking for the name of a book that I remember from my
>childhood. The book is about a family of children who are left alone for
>the summer after their housekeeper is unexpectedly called away suddenly.
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Lesley Knieriem [removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us
Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
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Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
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