Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sister calls him Stinky, his brother does not believe that Philadelphia is the capital of Belgium. Naturally Spinky Sulks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). At age 81, William Steig can still use the cartoonist's technique to render the wounds of childhood and the consolations of pouting. Spinky receives entreaties from his mother, lectures from his father and apologies from his siblings. Eventually, of course, he comes around, but only on his terms and his schedule. In youth as in humor, timing is everything. Steig has not forgotten that either...
Primary and secondary colors go first class in Who Said Red? (McElderry Books; $12.95). Mary Serfozo's lively text quotes a sister teasing her kid brother: "Now who said blue? Could it be you? A blue sky blue, a blue eye blue, a bow, a ball, a blue jean blue?" Or perhaps he wants "slicker yellow, sunshine yellow, lemonade and daisy yellow." But no; despite the additional temptations of purple, brown, pink and orange, the boy hews to one hue: "A cherry, berry, very red." And who can blame him? Keiko Narahashi shows a rainbow of appealing items...
JUXTAPOSED to Kate is her sister Blanche (Molly Bishop), a well-meaning but pitiful widow. Bishop's delivery in the first act is ineffectual, but during the second act, when both Blanche's sister and her daughter Nora (Kim Carnesale) confront her, Bishop gives a more powerful turn...
Harvard's top freshmen are Mary Greenhill, the younger sister of Harvard men's squash player Bobby Greenhill, Brooke Bailey and Carrie Cunningham...
Alex wanted his youngest sister to win the coveted Thomas Dewey Award for Academic Excellence, which he had received for three consecutive years. With his trademark snideness, he lamented the "dry season" in academic awards that his family had experienced during "The Mallory Years"--the time when his ditzy, fashion-concious sister, Mallory, was in junior high school...