Why?: The War Years by Tomie dePaola

Author:Tomie dePaola
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

Chapter Four

Today was the worst day since school started this year. Miss Gardner took adhesive tape and taped my three fingers together so I can’t hold my pen with two fingers and my thumb. My “exercises” are all over the place. And I don’t know WHO invented those pen points. They splurt and catch in the paper. The way Miss Gardner fusses over them, I’ll bet that if I broke one, I’d go to jail.

Mom said she’d help me. She bought me a penholder and a small box of pen points. The lady at Jepson’s stationery store told Mom to hold the pen points over a flame to make them stronger. We’ll see if that works.

At least the week had one sunshiny day. My first issue of Children’s Playmate magazine came in the mail on Wednesday.

When I was younger, I got Wee Wisdom, but then as I got older, it got boring. The stories weren’t very interesting and there was a lot of stuff about how to be polite and things like that.

Children’s Playmate has a color cover and I think the same artist does the picture every month. She signs it Fern Bisel Peat. Mom said that she is the “Art Director,” and she picks out all the art in the magazine. There are good stories, too. On the four pages in the middle of the magazine, there is a paper doll page.

I’ll confess a secret. I like paper dolls.

Jeannie gets paper doll books at the five-and-dime stores. But boys aren’t supposed to play with paper dolls. I cheat!

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