The focus, and the star, of THE YOUNG PRETENDERS is Babs. She
is intelligent, fun, kind, lively and honest and it is hard to think of a heroine in children's fiction (that is, fiction written for children but enjoyed equally as much by adults) who is like her. Her most touching characteristic is her openness and her complete lack of fear. `"What was we naughty about?"' she asks her brother after their uncle scolds them: `The children could not know that some very persistent tradesmen had insisted
on immediate payment of their bills.' When the news comes from
India that they have a new sister Babs thinks of a name for her - Mrs Brown. Her aunt slaps her down, saying that it's not a name
but Babs persists, `"It is, I know it is, 'cause nurse has a sister-in-law
what's called it."' Then she `began to think so hard that she refused
a second helping of pudding' eventually announcing, to renewed scorn, that "`I'd like her to be called Strawberry Jam."'
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