The Happy Time
Item
Title
The Happy Time
Creator
Fontaine, Robert Louis
Description
Coming-of-age novel in lighthearted stories set in and around Ottawa, Ontario, amidst the young narrator Robert's extended family of eccentric men and stern women. Robert's small obsession with a much older boarding woman, and other various crushes; the brief appearances of a friendly canary, a mouse, and Robert's French-Canadian uncles; Father Sebastian building a new church for life's finer things; the errands of neighbor Mrs. Merryweather; pipe organs, adult magazines, little green apples, and special characters in other vignettes. Illustrated. Adapted for stage and screen.
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Date
1945
Contributor
Duvoisin, Roger (illustrations)
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
Early 20th century
Ottawa, Ontario