Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella. With pictures by Susan Beatrice Pearse. London: Harrap, 1931. Early Reprint. Unpaginated. A nice clean copy in orange boards with illustration to front cover and illustrated endpapers.

A wonderful children’s book written in 1920 by Constance Heward & delightfully illustrated by Susan Beatrice.

The eponymous heroine, whose family is very poor, goes to a party and tries to bring back all of her food-cakes, tangerines, sweets-hidden in her umbrella to feed her ailing brothers and sisters.