Actor Mona 13 recites poetry and Shakespeare at the drop of a hat. Engineer Rush 12, mischievous, builds Meccano bridges. Miranda "Randy" 10 dances and paints pictures. Oliver, 6, calm and thoughtful, is a train engineer. Father writes. Housekeeper Cuffy mothers.

    During kindergarten recess, one accidentally hitches a ride out of town on a boxcar. One winds up trapped in the breadbox outside the deli. One offers to escort a Salvation Army man to his destination - and accidentally bumps him from his horse-drawn wagon.

    This an old favorite of Maine residents, and recounts a Christmas in Maine spent on a saltwater farm on the coast, with family; cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, grandparents.

    Not long after he landed in England, White found Margaret, who at this time was three and a half years old.Margaret was White's personal job in England, and this is his personal book about Margaret and her England. His public job was writing dispatches for America, and he made it his business to see, hear, and feel all phases of the war. He spend nights at the R. A. F. flying posts, watching the bombers go off to Germany. He went mine-sweeping in the English Channel. He was bombed himself. This is the fiery background for Margaret, the little girl White was finally able to adopt and bring to America.With the thoughts, speech, and action of an embattled people focussed through the story of a child, the reader feels as if he is reading for the first time the human story of England at war.