1951 First Edition Hardback  8vo  150pp  Coloured frontis and 6 black and white illustrations in the text by Valerie Sweet.  Green cloth with slight fade marks to bottom edge other wise very good condition in good dustwrapper price clipped with some ware to edges and small pieces missing from top and bottom of spine.

This is the authors first book.

But better than just being a funny story about a village school run by two sisters (mainly to educate their three younger sisters), it is a really lovely account of a girl (Rosalind) learning to live with her much older brother (Richard) who is almost a stranger – and him learning about her! There is a marvellous cast of supporting characters