Synopses & Reviews
The Just-So Woman likes everything to be just perfect. In the morning she wakes up before the rooster crows. She does her chores. She feeds the cat. Then she fixes breakfast. That is how she likes things done, and so that is how she does them every day—until one day when nothing goes just the way she expects, and she learns that sometimes "just so" isn't the only way things can turn out just right.
Synopsis
When the Just-So Woman has a day when nothing goes right, she learns an important lesson from her neighbor, the Any-Way Man. By the author of The Shakespeare Stealer. Jr Lib Guild.
About the Author
Gary Blackwood is the author of many novels for young readers, including The Year of the Hangman and The Shakespeare Stealer, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and School Library Journal Best Book for 1998. The Just-So Woman is his first I Can Read Book. Mr. Blackwood lives in Nova Scotia.