![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Running under the title “Everybody’s a critic,” Town and Country magazine ran a book-related item in a recent edition. ![]() The book can be ordered directly through Joan Keil Enterprises, P.O. “Nancy & Plum” ($9.95, 190 pages, ISBN 0-94) includes family photos of MacDonald and her children. The book involves orphaned children, an impatient and remote uncle, a mean-spirited owner of a boarding school and adventures that occur when the girls run away. Out of print for years, “Nancy & Plum” is a Christmas story about two young girls, 10-year-old Nancy and 8-year-old Plum, that MacDonald used to tell to her daughters at bedtime. Joan MacDonald Keil co-published the book with her husband, Jerry Keil, out of their Medina, Wash., home (they winter in Palm Springs, Calif.). Piggle-Wiggle” series.Īnother, which has just been republished by MacDonald’s daughter, is the 1952 novel “Nancy & Plum.” Perhaps not as well known is the fact that MacDonald also wrote children’s books. Fans of the late Puget Sound writer Betty MacDonald remember her as the author of such novels as “The Egg & I” and “Anybody Can Do Anything.” ![]()
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