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  A Kid for Two Farthings (The Bloomsbury Group) (Paperback) By (author) Wolf Mankowitz

  

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  Short Description for A Kid for Two FarthingsA magical 1950s tale of hopes and dreams that reveals the spirit of East End's vibrant immigrant community and the charm of a little imagination
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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Published: 02 November 2009
  • Format: Paperback 144 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781408802946 ISBN 10: 1408802945
  • Sales rank: 261,701

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Full description for A Kid for Two Farthings

• Six year-old Joe knows a unicorn when he sees one. His downstairs neighbour Mr Kandinsky has told him all about these mythical creatures, and there isn't anything in the world that this wise tailor doesn't know. So when Joe sees a little white goat amidst the singing birds, salted herrings and hokey-pokey ices of a Whitechapel market he has to have him. He knows it's just a matter of time before the tiny bump on the unicorn's head becomes the magic horn to grant his every wish. For in the embattled working-class community of 1950s East End London, there are plenty of people in need of good fortune. The only thing Mr Kandinsky wants is a steam press for his shop; his assistant Shmule, a wrestler, just needs to buy a ring for his girl; and all Joe and his mother wish for, more than anything, is to join his father in Africa. But maybe, just maybe, Joe's unicorn can sprinkle enough luck on all his friends for their humble dreams to come true. A Kid for Two Farthings is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers.