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Author: Hildegarde Dolson

📘 We shook the family tree by Hildegarde Dolson

What a family! There's Mother, who loves to paint -- she even paints flowers on Hildegarde's new hat! There's little Jimmy, whose favorite position is upside down... and Cousin Arthur, who lives in a Moose Hall. And there's Hildegarde herself: everything happens to her! A true story of a happy-go-lucky girl and her impossibly funny family... from her growing up in a small town to her first big city job.

First publish date: 1972

Authors: Hildegarde Dolson

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