Emily's Eighteen Aunts

by Curtis Parkinson

All of Emily's friends have someone special to take them to the ice cream parlor, or the ballet, or the park. Now that her mother is busy with the new baby, Emily doesn't have anyone to entertain her -- no uncles or big sisters or aunts. Emily sets out to solve her little difficulty and succeeds beyond her wildest dreams. The result is eighteen eager aunts, who cause mayhem wherever they go. If only they weren't so. . .different. Now Emily has a much bigger problem. How can she stop the aunts from embarrassing her without hurting their feelings? Emily's Eighteen Aunts is a warm, funny look at what happens when one thing leads to another -- and another. And happily, Emily finds out that being different is far more fun than she thought possible.

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 23, 2002

About the author

Curtis Parkinson grew up in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in chemical engineering and worked in South America and in Canada for many years. Then he moved to the Caribbean to live on a sailboat and to write, a lifelong dream. As Curtis says, "Many rejections later, the cat fell off the boat one night, and the cat's story became my first book, Tom Foolery."

More picture books and short stories followed, then five young adult novels.

Reviews

[Kit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely little book!
Had diversity too.