Author Description

"Takes us back to the peaceful era of the Model T, the yellow ice wagon and the trolley car... The cast of characters is the author's large and irresistible family...especially Pop and Mum, the happy leaders of the gang. Pop (Reverend Robert Russell Wicks) is the minister of a large church in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Two-thirty-one Oak Street, the parsonage, is a Victorian valentine of a house set in an overgrown garden, the perfect setting for a rapidly increasing Wicks tribe... [This book] reassures us that in a time of change there are some things that are changeless: the wonder of a new baby, the circle of the seasons in all their beauty, the love of families and the indispensable medicine of laughter"--from jacket flaps.