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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Mrs. Coverlet and the kids
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 13:46:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 13:46:12 1985
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>    >> Can anyone identify the titles or author of a series of children's
>    >> books about three siblings, two male and one female, of whom the
>    >> older boy is named Malcolm, and the younger, Theodore, is known as
>    >> "The Toad".  The kids have a dowager mentor, Mrs.
>    >> Dextrose-Chesapeake,
> 
> The book with the mail-order voodoo kit is _Mrs._Coverlet's_Magicians_
> 
> I also had the pleasure of reading one of the Mrs. Coverlet books in the
> early 60s, "While Mrs. Coverlet Was Away." 
> I can't remember the author's name, but it's nice to know that the book
> I read was part of a series.  This was very good stuff.

I read really liked this series also.  The author's name is Mary Nash.

Marguerite (*not* Allen)
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