Snips and Snails
Nonfiction, History, World History, Americas, United States, Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense
| Author: | Louise Maxwell Baker | ISBN: | 9781787209916 |
| Publisher: | Valmy Publishing | Publication: | February 27, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Valmy Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Louise Maxwell Baker |
| ISBN: | 9781787209916 |
| Publisher: | Valmy Publishing |
| Publication: | February 27, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Valmy Publishing |
| Language: | English |
“LITTLE did I suspect what I was grooming myself for when I used to sit up straight at table and eat my spinach like a good girl. I thought I was minding my Ps and Qs and my mother so I could have my dessert. But, actually, what I was unwittingly doing was nourishing my blood and sinew and building the Body Beautiful for sacrifice on the altar of Pedagogy. So help me—in my dewy innocence, I was growing up to be a schoolteacher…”
In Snips and Snails, first published in 1953, the author of the hilarious bestseller Out on a Limb, Louise Baker, finds herself in an even more precarious position as teacher, “mother,” and town marshal at a boy’s school…
“LITTLE did I suspect what I was grooming myself for when I used to sit up straight at table and eat my spinach like a good girl. I thought I was minding my Ps and Qs and my mother so I could have my dessert. But, actually, what I was unwittingly doing was nourishing my blood and sinew and building the Body Beautiful for sacrifice on the altar of Pedagogy. So help me—in my dewy innocence, I was growing up to be a schoolteacher…”
In Snips and Snails, first published in 1953, the author of the hilarious bestseller Out on a Limb, Louise Baker, finds herself in an even more precarious position as teacher, “mother,” and town marshal at a boy’s school…
