Dot for Short

by Frieda Friedman, Carolyn Haywood (Illustrator)

Dot, a young New York girl who would give anything to be tall, pretty, and self-confident like her two older sisters, becomes a hero during a family crisis.

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1947

About the author

Born in 1905, Frieda Friedman wrote affectionately for preteens. Her books were reprinted regularly through the 1970s. Her illustrators included
Valeria Patterson and Carolyn Haywood.
Friedman set her fiction in the City of New York, and focused primarily on the lives of young girls from loving, supportive working class families.