Publisher's blurb at back of book states:
ANNETTE OF RIVER BEND is a story that will go straight to the hearts of all young readers from the age of ten onwards. For Irene Cheyne ranks with L. M. Montgomery, Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce as a creator of vital, lovable characters that will live as real people for countless youngsters. Annette—sparkling, imaginative, impetuous and loyal—is youth itself, an Australian Pollyanna. And her story with its gaiety and humour, its pathos and mystery, has a charm that will enshrine it with the immortal Anne of Green Gables in the affections of the young at heart.
Annette is the motherless daughter of old Dick Linney, the richest and meanest man in River Bend, on the upper Murray. Old Dick doesn't care twopence for Annette, and goodness knows what would have become of her but for Bill Bluitt, the manager of the Golden Pineapple Cafe next door. He is her chief friend and mentor, and he it is who persuades Dick Linney to send her to a boarding-chool in Melbourne—to the great amazement of River Benders. But Bill has a strange power over old Dick, a power that goes back many years to a dramatic episode in old Dick's past.
All Irene Cheyne's people are so real that you feel like inviting them home to tea; but her chief creation is the child Annette. She should certainly be enthroned with the other heroines of juvenile literature.
Annette and Co.
Sydney
:
Angus and Robertson
,
1942
Z830585
1942
single work
children's fiction
children's
Publisher's blurb in back of books states:
Annette & Co., a worthy sequel to the much-loved Annette of River Bend, will win the hearts of readers young and old. For Irene Cheyne's youthful characters are youth itself, and this second Annette book places her firmly in the front rank of those writers who have captured for us the zest, the humour, the pathos and the rich imaginativeness of childhood.
In this book Annette's own problems are happily solved, so she can turn all her attention to those of little Odd Wattier. Motherless Odd is leading a miserable life among unkindly relatives when Annette meets and befriends him. She finds out that one of his biggest troubles is the mystery surrounding his father's disappearance, and this mystery she determines to solve. Many exciting adventures and discoveries follow, and they all add charm to each of the kind, happy people who become involved: Joujay, the Tucker two, the Cherub, Dan, Potts, the Dragon, Dominic Heath, the mysterious David Stanes, and above all Annette herself.
