The Abbey Girls Play Up

by Elsie J. Oxenham

This is one of Elsie Oxenham’s many delightful stories of fun and comradeship among the 'Abbey' girls.
Little Cecily, of the shining red hair and volatile temper holds the centre of the stage, from the minutes she is discovered behind a thorn bush piping her favourite dance-tunes on a ‘penny’ whistle. That starts Maribel and Rosalind, Mrs. Raymond and Lady Marchwood, eagerly planning a musical future for the red-headed 'Pied Piper' whose perfect rhythm can set their feet tapping at once.
Of course the book in simply full of lively and interesting people, who, as well as planning Cecily’s future, make the happiest discoveries about the lost French childhood.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Seagull undated edition)

My edition: Seagull Library undated with dustwrapper
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library dustwrapper undated