Lauren Child chooses The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars

More about Lauren's choice: Betsy Byars (1928 – 2020) was a prolific and award winning American children’s writer. The Eighteenth Emergency was her 9th out of over 40 books, published in the US in 1973 and a year later in the UK. She started writing to fend off the boredom of being at home with small children and was undeterred by her first book being rejected nine times. The Eighteenth Emergency was inspired by her fear of the tyrants of her own school playground, the Fletcher brothers. In later years she got her pilot’s licence and lived with her pilot husband above an aircraft hangar. 

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