The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow

Description:

A comic story set in mock-Victorian times. Solomon Snow discovers, to his amazement, that he is a foundling. A silver spoon was left with him as a baby, but Pa has pawned it. Solomon leaves home in high dudgeon to seek his spoon and his real parents. He joins up with Prudence Pridy, a very bossy girl, and a very irritating child called the Infant Prodigy, who can wind any adult round her little finger. Together they reach Town and promptly meet a glorious cast of assorted larger-than-life characters including a villainous pawnbroker, kidnappers, a child farmer, an awful orphanage and a cheery chimney-sweep's boy. Solly does find his spoon eventually - but the ending takes everyone by surprise.

subjects: Juvenile Fiction,  Fiction,  Boy orphans,  Orphans,  Individuality,  Spoons,  Identification,  Birthparents,  Quests,  Foundlings,  Child circus performers,  Friendship,  Determination in children,  Juvenile fiction,  Abandoned children,  Identity (Psychology),  Determination (Personal quality),  Identity,  Ten-year-old boys,  Social conditions,  Children's fiction,  Orphans, fiction,  Great britain, fiction,  Friendship, fiction