Two sensitive and funny portraits of young women determined to be artists and coming of age in the late 1950s, M. B. Goffstein's novels for young adults are available again-published together for the first time in one volume. The Underside of the Leaf"Funny in a bittersweet way." -Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (recommended)"Playing with paper dolls one moment and imagining vague sexual encounters the next-a memorable portrait." -Book World Daisy Summerfield's Style"[Daisy Summerfield is] determined to become an honest artist, and the detailing of her life, culminating in a sweet surprise, makes the book a real page-turner." -Publishers Weekly"For someone whose idea of style even in 1959 is to change her first name and stick matching cardboard daisies on her luggage, Daisy Summerfield comes a long way in short time. You'll like her from the start though, this wide-eyed Midwesterner . . . It's a proper fairy-tale ending, confirming for the skeptical that Daisy is an artist indeed-but by then it couldn't be clearer that the real joy is all in getting there." -Kirkus Reviews
