Description: The story is about Jim and Josie's travels from Illinois to California. Their father has been gone for some time and they have not heard from him in months. Now that their mother has died, the Twins and their older brother plan to go West in search of him. Along the way they team up with their friend Billy and his family, who are off to search for their fortunes. Lots of adventure and an absence of major gender issues make this a highly enjoyable read. Lucy Fitch was born on July 12, 1865 in Maples, Indiana, to Appleton Howe and Elizabeth (Bennett) Fitch. Her father was a teacher who moved to Maples to co-found a barrel stave factory. Her mother was a teacher. Fitch moved with her mother to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to live with her father's patents as her father tried to recover from a financial setback from the Panic of 1873. Unhappy with the Hopkinton schools, the family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1879.Fitch graduated from high school in 1883 and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the Museum of Fine Arts School. She met Dwight H. Perkins in her third year at the school. Fitch started to write children's fiction on a freelance basis for Young Folks. She graduated in 1886 and took a job as an illustrator for the Prang Educational Company of Boston. A year later, she followed Walter Scott Perry to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, to become his assistant. Fitch left on August 18, 1891, to marry Perkins and move to Chicago, Illinois. Perkins initially tended to the household, writing only on occasion. However, after her husband struggled in the aftermath of the Panic of 1893, Perkins began to write to supplement the family income. The Chicago office of the Prang Educational Company employed Perkins for the next 10 years, offering her opportunities to teach and illustrate. In 1905, her husband was appointed chief architect for the Chicago Board of Education, allowing them to support the construction of a new house in Evanston, Illinois
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
Signed: No
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Subject: Children's
Year Printed: 1927
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Lucy Fitch Perkins
Special Attributes: Illustrated, DECORATED BOARDS
Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins
Region: North America
Personalized: No
PAGE COUNT: 221
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
Topic: The Adventures of Jim and Josie's
Character Family: THE TWIN SERIES
