WE SHOOK THE FAMILY TREE by Hildegarde Dolson - 1972

New York: Scholastic. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Paperback. 1st Scholastic edition 1972. Pages all intact and clean other than tiny name stamp on first endpage. Light age tanning to pages and covers. Cover has minor edgewear and light scuffing, couple small creases. A true story of a happy-go-lucky girl and her impossibly funny family .... ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Review: "....The bizarre and true stories about Hildegarde Dolson's family are so funny and so clearly written that I can still remember them, even though it's been ten years or more since I last read the book. For instance: in an attempt to make the yard more "interesting" her mother buys a goat and lets it eat its way randomly across the lawn, instead of mowing it. Her sister was such a "dish" as a child, with bright blue eyes and "hair the color of goldfish", that a neighbor child kept biting her. Finally, the biter's mother was forced to bite her, to show her what it was like! When Hildegarde finds out that she's a bit bowlegged, she wears a fringed tablecloth tied around her waist to go swimming, and nearly drowns in front of the boy she was trying to impress. ..." (115os,0814) .