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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.

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9781550051223

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...makes the point about accepting difference... Von Konigslow_s cheerful, loose-lined watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures portray the adventures with a playful humor that matches the lighthearted tone of the story. (Booklist)

...makes the point about accepting difference... Von Konigslow s cheerful, loose-lined watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures portray the adventures with a playful humor that matches the lighthearted tone of the story. (Booklist) The book makes the point about accepting differences. . . Von Konigslow's cheerful, loose-lined watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures portray the adventures with a playful humor that matches the lighthearted tone of the story. - Booklist children will relate to Emily's desire for a family like everyone else's. - School Library Journal The book makes the point about accepting differences. . . Von Konigslow's cheerful, loose-lined watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures portray the adventures with a playful humor that matches the lighthearted tone of the story. - Booklist children will relate to Emily's desire for a family like everyone else's. - School Library Journal

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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."" Andrea Wayne von Konigslow was born in Toronto Canada. As a child Andrea lived in Mexico where she learned to speak Spanish and eat hot chili peppers. She attended Thornton Hall, an arts high school, in Toronto. She received he B.A. in Psychology from Queen's University, and while she was living in Kingston she illustrated science booklets, and cartooned for the Whig Standard newspaper. After marring Rainer von Konigslow she moved to Montreal where she taught art to children at the Centre d?Education par la Music et les Artes. When she was pregnant, she found her new figure so comical that she began drawing greeting cards that sold at Shirley K maternity stores across Canada. She has had many art exhibits in Montreal and Toronto. Andrea's books are translated into many languages including, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean etc. Andrea has three children, Alexis, Tai, and Kier.

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