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I have vivid memories of a children’s chapter book I got out of a Canadian library or school sometime in the mid-’90s. It was about an extremely poor family, a mother, a father, and a daughter who lived in a RV or mobile home or carriage or something; when the daughter registers for school, she says she has no address or birthplace because she was always moving.<\/p>\n
They are so poor they can’t afford paper, and so the mother or father, a very talented artist, makes lots of drawings on toilet paper.<\/p>\n
There are lots of comic-like drawings\u2014I remember one which had a fork and peas in two panels, the first captioned “unsteady fork, steady peas” and the next with the peas falling off labelled “steady fork, unsteady peas.”<\/p>\n
At one point, the daughter gets a letter sent to her with a drawing (reproduced in the book)\u2014right side up it looks like a toucan, upside down it’s a man sitting on a toilet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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