TIDY LADY Anne Lindbergh /Susan Hoguet HBDJ/1ST

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"If people are fools enough to let their grass grow long, they should have the decency to braid it."

When the tidy lady moves in next door, the place is wild and neglected. Alex and his sister think it a very good place to play; still, they offer to help clean up the yard. They cut the grass, but that's not neat enough for the tidy lady. She rolls it right up. And straightens all the twigs on the trees. She even rakes the stars out of the sky!

As the trash bags mount and the ivy disappears, tidiness comes to a fanciful end in Anne Lindbergh and Susan Hoguet's second collaboration. Children who delight in another kind of order will cheer its triumph in this unique picture book fantasy.

Anne Lindbergh is the daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She grew up in a book-filled house and began writing when she was very young. She has written eight novels for children, including the highly successful fantasies The People in Pineapple Place and The Prisoner of Pineapple Place. She lives in rural Vermont with her children.

Susan Hoguet studied book illustration at Parsons School of Design. She is the creator of the award-winning children's books I Unpacked My Grandmother's Trunk (called "one of the books children never tire of no matter how many times they read or listen to it" by Publishers Weekly] and Solomon Grundy. She lives in Connecticut with her children and an assortment of animals, all of whom serve as models for her work.

Anne Lindbergh and Susan Hoguet have collaborated on one previous book, Next Time, Take Care. They work closely with each other to produce books in which the text and illustrations are woven inseparably together, each making an essential contribution to the whole story.

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