Leaving their magical safety pins, leaping garters, and fantastic watch with the Eliot children, those intrepid ladies, Aggie, Maggie, and Tish, are off on a mysterious trip. The pins and the watch come in handy when Annabelle Eliot, in a fit of anger, gives away her baby brother Ben.
Maggie and Tish return in a roaring snowstorm bearing the terrible news that Aggie is missing. She has disappeared in upper New York State. The search for the elusive Aggie begins, with strange messages about turnips and beggars and velvet gowns as the only clues.
Young readers met the Eliots and the three old ladies in Betty Erwin's first book, Aggie, Maggie, and Tish. They will have even more fun reading about them in this new book. (From jacket copy of 1967 Little, Brown edition.)
This is an annotated edition of the original 1967 publication, with notes and an afterword by the author's daughter Helen Erwin Schinske. Cover and vignettes by Emma Falconer.
