Sally's Family

by Gwendoline Courtney

When the war ends, Sally Hamilton is faced with the task of setting up a home for her five brothers and sisters, orphaned by the war and separated by evacuation, in a bare and dilapidated house and on a very small income.
Undaunted, Sally perseveres although at first she gets very little co-operation from the rest of the family. But gradually the excitement of making a home out of nothing infects them all. Guy and Lucy surprise their family with their determined efforts to achieve their ambitions of a career, despite the lack of money to help them. The irrepressible Robin finds the overgrown garden and the nearby farm a paradise, while, under the influence of her new-found family, small, grave Pookum loses some of her quaint professorial ways and becomes a normal child again. Eventually even Kitty, who has been spoilt by rich foster parents, discovers the fun of making their own amusements and being one of a family.
Gwendoline Courtney writes with all her usual humour and charm of the fun and the struggles of Sally's lively family.
(Dustwrapper blurb from 1962 edition)

My edition: Seagull edition 1962 with dustwrapper
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library dustwrapper 1962