THE MAGIC MOONBERRY JUMP ROPES

Dial, New York, 1996, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-8037-1755-5.  Library Edition hard cover, unpaginated.  Unread copy; dust jacket has some edge and cover wear, short edge tear at spine head repaired on verso, wear at corner folds with tiny losses.  Colour illustrations by E. B. Lewis.  ‘April and her little sister Erica love to jump Double Dutch.  But summer vacation has started, and nobody else in the neighborhood wants to jump rope.  They need some new friends – fast!  Then Uncle Zambezi arrives with a pair of beautiful, hand-dyed jump ropes that come all the way from Tanzania in East Africa.  Uncle Zambezi says that the ropes are magic:  When the girls jump, their wishes will come true.  And April and Erica know just what to wish for.  Filled with rollicking jump rope rhymes, this lively story is as bright and warm as the first day of vacation … and as magical as a basket of moonberries.’ (from front flap)