| #13077002 in Books | 1988-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.25 x4.25 x.50l, | File Name: 0816714673
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Delightful!|By The Schoolmarm|This wonderful little book, first published in 1912, has been treasured by generations of romantics. In 1955 a movie was made of the book starring Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire. Our dear Fred was 56 years old, too old ( in my opinion) to play the part of the elusive daddy long legs, who was supposed to be 34. Nevertheless the movie was a big hit!|From School Library Journal||Gr 9 Up-Jerusha Abbott has grown up in the John Grier Home for orphans. As the oldest, she is in charge of the younger children. An anonymous benefactor on the Board, "Mr. Smith," decides to send her to college, as long as she write
"Daddy-Long-Legs" book has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.
"The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-seven reminded of th...
