Tinker Jim
By: Gillian McClure ; poem by Paul Coltman.
Contributors: McClure, Gillian, ill.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Hunger -- Fiction.; Poverty -- Fiction.; Stories in rhyme.; England -- Fiction.
Description: Tinker Jim, who lives in a chicken coop, happens upon the estate grounds of Lady and Lord Higg where, overcome by a yen for the "good life," he begins lifting food from Lady Higg's freezer and wearing his Lordship's pin-stripe suits, until the authorities put him back in his chicken coop.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Scholastic Publications Ltd., 1992."