280 pp. Full-page illustrations, jacket art, illustrated endpapers, and title page illustrated by author. Seredy won the Newbery Medal for her 1938 novel The White Stag, Newbery Honors for two others, and a Caldecott Honor. A laid-off advertising man places a starting bid at a country auction and finds out that he bought a run-down farm - a humorous and somewhat idyllic picture of a family adapting to country living (although for Gran, it is a return to the farm life she loved) as World War II steadily worsens in Europe.
