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2) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1876. Among the filth and depravity of Covent Garden's flower markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets and watercress to survive. It is a pitiful existence, made bearable only by each other's presence. When they become separated, the decision of a desperate woman sets their lives on very different paths. 1912. Twenty-one-year-old Tilly Harper leaves the peace and beauty of her native Lake District for London to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn loves the farmers' market, where her parents sell honey, and this time she is going to help out at her friend Kalia's family flower stand, but Bumble B is rather clumsy and easily distracted, so things do not go as well as she hoped--but in the end she finds a way to put her skills as an artist to good use.