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Summary
Summary
From Carolyn Haywood, author of the beloved Betsy series, here are four more classics for young readers. These adorable stories of childhood adventures are as fresh today as when they were written more than a half century ago. And now, thanks to dynamic new covers, they're ready to charm a whole new generation of readers.
Penny's name is really William, but when he was adopted as a baby, he had hair the color of a new copper penny. Adopted or not, Penny decides to prove his friend Patsy wrong when she says he doesn't truly have a family!
Author Notes
Author and illustrator Carolyn Haywood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 3, 1898. She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and the Philadelphia Normal School in 1922. After teaching one year at the Friends Central School, she received a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While there, she studied portrait painting for three years, spent one year studying in Europe, and came back to study illustration. Her first children's book, When I Grow Up, was published in 1931. She is best known for her books in the Betsy and Eddie series. The first book, B Is for Betsy, was published in 1939. Her other works include Snowbound with Betsy, Hello, Star, and Eddie's Friend, Boddles.
Besides writing and illustrating her own books, she also painted children's portraits and painted murals in banks and schools in the Philadelphia area. She received the distinction of a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania in 1969 and received the Pennsylvania Librarians Outstanding Pennsylvania Author Award in 1970. She stopped illustrating her own books in the 1970's, but started writing adult books including Book of Honor, a collection of biographies of famous Pennsylvanian women. She died of a stroke on January 11, 1990 at the age of 92.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Excerpts
Excerpts
A Brand-New PennyThey called him Penny. His name wasn't Penn or Penrose or Penrod or anything that would make you think of Penny. His real name was William.Before Penny came to live with his daddy and mother, his daddy had said, "When we get our little boy, let's name him William. Then we can call him Bill.""Not Billy?" asked Mother."Not Billy, nor Willy, nor anything else that ends in ee. Just plain Bill," said Daddy."Very well!" replied Mother. "Plain Bill it shall be."But this is how he happened to be called Penny.Long before Penny arrived, his mother and daddy decided that more than anything else in the world they wanted a little boy."A little red-haired boy," his mother used to say."With freckles on his nose," Daddy would add. And then Mother and Daddy would look at each other and laugh, just because they had said it so many times.One day Daddy received a telegram from the head of a big hospital. It said that they had some babies that needed fathers and mothers, so Mother and Daddy got right on the train and went to see the babies.They looked at the babies, one by one. They were all sweet and cuddly. There was one with black hair and one with hair like a fuzzy peach and there was one with no hair at all."Maybe it will be red when he gets it," said Daddy."No," replied Mother, "we have to be sure."And then she spied Penny. He was sound asleep in his little basket. He was the color of a ripe apricot and his head was covered with red gold ringlets."Here he is!" whispered Mother. "Here's our little boy!"Daddy looked at him very carefully. "Is that a freckle on his nose?" he asked.Mother leaned over and looked at the tiny button of a nose. "I think it will be, by the time he is six," she replied.Mother picked him up and the sunlight fell on the baby's head."My goodness!" said Daddy. "He looks like a brand-new copper penny."Mother cradled the baby in her arms. He opened his eyes and stretched his mouth into a funny toothless grin. "He's just a dear, precious little penny," she said.And so they named him William. But they called him Penny.Now, Penny was six years old with freckles on his nose. He was in the first grade and he loved to go to school.Patsy, the little girl next door, was in the first grade, too. Every morning Penny would stand on his toes and lift the brass knocker on Patsy's front door. Then he would hear Patsy's feet pattering, and in a moment she would pop out of the door. Then off to school they tramped.One morning Penny was full of excitement. "I'm going to get a kitten," he said, the moment Patsy appeared."How do you know you are?" asked Patsy."My mother said I could get one," replied Penny. "He's going to be a black kitten, with a white nose and white paws.""How do you know?" asked Patsy."'Cause that's the kind I want," said Penny."Well, you can't always get kittens just the way you want 'em," said Patsy. "You have to take 'em the way they come.""Who said so?" asked Pe Excerpted from Here's a Penny by Carolyn Haywood All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
1 A Brand-New Penny | p. 1 |
2 Really Truly | p. 12 |
3 Patsy's Twins | p. 23 |
4 Another Kitten Hunt | p. 35 |
5 Chocolate and the Queen of Hearts | p. 47 |
6 More Surprises | p. 59 |
7 Penny Earns some Pennies | p. 70 |
8 Overall Trouble | p. 86 |
9 Peter the Ballplayer | p. 99 |
10 How the Sailboat Got Its Name | p. 112 |