Product Description

Lily wants pillows that say "wish"!

Tess wants a vest with sequins.

And Rosie wants dolls with dresses.

And since the cousins have three weeks off from school for Winter Vacation, they want Mrs. White to give them sewing lessons so they can make all the pillows and vests and dolls they want. Of course, Aunt Lucy loves the idea, and soon Lily, Rosie, and Tess are not only learning to make stitches, but also how to hold on to their precious Cobble Street memories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2863112 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• 55 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780613301404
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
• Notes:

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4Two more beginning chapter-book series titles that young girls will adore. Three nine-year-old cousinsTess, Lily, and Rosielive with their Aunt Lucy while their parents tour with a ballet company. In Some Good News, the girls create a local newspaper; in Special Gifts, they learn to sew. The simple plots rise and fall gently with enough action and activity to interest beginning readers. These are lighthearted stories with happy endings. The minutely detailed pencil-and-watercolor artwork sprinkled throughout the books reveals the unique personalities of the girls and creates a wonderfully serene setting. Readers are going to wish they, too, lived on Cobble Street. Good alternatives to The American Girls series (Pleasant Company).Sarah ONeal, Salt Lake County Library System, UT
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Cynthia Rylant is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young readers. She received the Newbery Medal for Missing May, and a Newbery Honor for A Fine White Dust. Her other books for children include the award-winning beginning reader series Henry and Mudge, as well as the bestselling picture books Dog Heaven and Cat Heaven, which she illustrated herself. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Customer Reviews

Cobble Street Cousins - Special Gifts
The "special gift" is this book and the entire series of Cobble Street Cousins. I am the proud mother of four lovely daughters and what a pleasure to find such a sweetly written book. I have recommended this book to friends with daughters and they have loved it as well. It is hard to find a morally appropriate, light, non-violent book for young girls. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is the type of book all little girls should grow up on.

Nice stories
Cynthia Rylant's stories about these three little cousins are always cute, sweet and great reading for early elementary readers. I am always looking for nice stories that I like but will also interest my daughter. These little stories solve that problem.