![]() ![]() It is a tale of two extraordinarily lucky children, Thomas and his older sister Fernanda, who go into hiding in this fashion (a later paperback reprinting of this story is called "Children In Hiding") when their father leaves them and doesn't come back. ![]() It is a fairy-tale story of its time, written in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when the Meatpacking District on Manhattan's lower West Side was a place with rented apartments where laborers and their families (in this case, Puerto Rican immigrants)could actually afford to live, and vacant apartments and buildings where people could potentially live as squatters unnoticed. This is one of the better childrens' books out there, but keep in mind it has its limitations. ![]()
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