A Girl Named Zippy: A Small-town Seventies Childhood - Softcover

Kimmel, Haven

3.8

36,947 ratings by Goodreads

9780091892401: A Girl Named Zippy: A Small-town Seventies Childhood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091892406 ISBN 13: 9780091892401

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2003

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Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed with big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was still caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period - people helped their neighbours, went to church on Sunday and kept barnyard animals in their barnyards. Zippy, according to her kindergarten report is 'disruptive in class. Colours outside the lines. Talks out of turn.' Her parents read it out loud to her. 'Good for you, sweetheart,' her mother says. Her dad gives her a pat on the back.

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Review:

'Parenting experts would gag, but Zippy’s parents must have done something right to produce a girl who could write such a simple, lovely book.’ -- USA Today

‘Sly, evocative, gentle, wry and dead-on funny.’ -- Martin Clark

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A witty, charming memoir of a child growing up in a small Indiana town.

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