Spot's First Christmas by Eric Hill

Spot's First Christmas by Eric Hill

In 1880 New York City, Patrick has it rough. No family, no money-he has to steal food to survive, and he lives under the porch of a hotel. Patrick has no job, because he's too small and puny a man to work at physical labor, and he doesn't have enough schooling to be a clerk.

Then he sees a newspaper ad saying that the Mail Order Bride Company is looking for young women who are willing to take a train out west and to marry a lonely man, sight unseen.

To Patrick, the idea seems simple: Dress up as a young woman, scam the Mail Order Bride Company out of a train ticket, travel for free to somewhere west of New York, ditch the women's clothes, and start a new life in a new city.

Patrick's plan works at first. But then he discovers that every time the train pulls into a station, the Mail Order Bride Company has someone there to make sure that Charity doesn't leave her train.

But what really messes up the plan is a kindly old woman on the train. She reads to Charity from what Charity believes is merely a book of poetry.

Tags: 1880s, Chicago (IL), cross-dressing, fantasy, Fort Wayne (IN), historical fantasy, magic, magical transformation, New York City (NY), orphan, orphanage, romance, slow transformation, tg, train travel, transgender, transvestite, Webster (SD)

The story is 47,100 words.

Eric Hill (1927-2014) started his artistic career as an art studio messenger and from there went on to become a cartoonist and eventually an art director at a leading advertising agency. In 1978, Eric made up a story about a small puppy to read to his son at bedtime, and Spot was born. The success of his first bestselling lift-the-flap classic, Where's Spot?, in 1980 convinced him to become a full-time author, and his Spot books have been enjoyed by children around the world ever since. In 2008 he was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to children's literacy.

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ISBN 13	9780399235979
ISBN 10	0399235973
Title	Spot's First Christmas
Author	Eric Hill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Putnam Juvenile
Year published	2003-09-22
Number of pages	12
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.