Title: The hatbox baby
First published: 2000
Description: "On a sweltering summer morning in 1933, a baby is delivered in a hatbox to the Century of Progress Exposition - the World's Fair - in Chicago.".

"This very tiny baby, born three months early, is brought by his desperate young father to the fair's famous baby doctor, Leo Hoffman, to be saved. Dr. Hoffman - part showman, part scientist - finances his neonatal research by exhibiting a collection of live premature babies in their incubators. His "Infantorium," with its giant test-tube fountain spouting pink-and-blue water and its pair of wading storks, attracts huge, gawking crowds every sultry day.".

"At the fair, a place of freaks and marvels, mysteries, miracles - and even murders - the notion of what is "normal" and what is not comes into question daily. And before the summer ends and the fair closes, a number of remarkable persons will invest heavily in this fragile baby's life: Dr. Hoffman; his registered nurses; his wet nurses; the baby's spinster aunt; Caroline Day, the beautiful fan dancer and another of the fair's biggest attractions; and a dwarflike sideshow barker named St.

Louis Percy, the fan dancer's cousin, manager, and bodyguard, whose stake in the hatbox baby's future becomes the most serious of all."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Infants (Premature), Premature infants, Fiction, Pediatricians, Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.), Physician and patient, Neonatology, Large type books, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, medical, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Chicago (Ill.)
LC classification: PS3552.R68529 H3 2000