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Of course some people will tell you that in Yorkshire you have ham and salad and tinned peaches for tea, but this is not true if the aunts are coming. Not true at all. It has been buns and bits since the Vikings.

Jane Gardam,
A Few Fair Days

But even in the shade of the dusty bushes, Miri was embarrassed. Fairies. At her age. Last year her teacher, Mrs. Lorne, had written on her report card, “Miri has a dazzling imaginative capacity.” That sounded nice, but most of the other fifth-grade girls had stopped pretending.

Annie Barrows, The Magic Half

Foreign Editions of The Penderwicks on Gardam Street...


Penderwicks on Gardam Street British coverThe foreign countries provide their own covers and their own translations. Even the British do some translating. They’ve changed skillet to frying pan, crib to cot, backpack to rucksack, and the game CLUE to Cluedo! Their cover is also quite different than the American one, much brighter and bouncier.

Penderwicks on Gardam Street Dutch cover and picture of Kirby
Here is the Dutch cover for The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, as shown in the publisher's catalog. Note that they've also included a picture of Jeanne's cat, Kirby, reading out loud from his journal entitled My Life in a Messy House.