is based on the memories of Clarissa Nadine Townsend and her brother, Paul Gregory Townsend, set in rural America in the post-depression era. From sampling the sweet sap of the "sugar" bush, to making a dress from an old feed sack (then tearing it on a barbed wire fence!), and watching baby goats get into all kinds of mischief, Clarissa's adventures capture the essence of what it meant to be a child in these innocent times. There's even a template for making a paper doll of Clarissa and her feed sack dress! Remember the way children's books used to be? Grandparents and other family members reading bedtime stories and looking at the pictures together? Now you can revisit those magical days with your youngsters, through Elm Grove Publishing's special series of "Children's Books for Grandparents." Brand new stories, traditionally told in classically styled books that will capture the imagination and the heart, specially designed and printed for grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, even big brothers and sisters, to read to small children.