Book or short story about a girl whose family can’t afford much and her school lunches consist of bread and salt that she pretends (or maybe her mother pretends) are other foods.
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Book or short story about a girl whose family can’t afford much and her school lunches consist of bread and salt that she pretends (or maybe her mother pretends) are other foods.
This sounds like ‘The Rainbow Dress and other Tolush Tales’ by Ilse Margret Vogel.
From an online review: “Four sentimental tales of love and poverty in a half-timbered thatched-roof cottage… Poor Tollush, sweet, blond and aproned, has nothing to wear to her friend’s birthday party in the castle, until her widowed mother makes her a beautiful “”rainbow”” outfit from her old patched and outgrown dresses . . . Embarrassed that there is only bread and salt for her sandwich, Tollush pretends at school that she has a heavenly cheese, egg, ham and pickle combination . . . When they have only one short candle left, Tollush and her mother enjoy the dark, rocking their chair up to the stars and back. And though she has no pennies for a gift, Tollush gives her mother (after their bread pudding Christmas supper) an old photo of her dead father, having decorated the frame with autumn leaves, nuts, etc.”
Found on the Solved board: The Rainbow Dress and Other Tollush Tales.