Description: It is frightening for Sugar Plum when her mama needs her help on the night the stork comes to visit. Her daddy is away, and there is no one else to go out into the dark and fetch the midwife. Sugar Plum pushes her fears aside and braves the haunting cry of the night owl, leaps over gullies crowded with leeches, and crosses the rattletrap bridge over the stream filled with snakes to get Mis' Hattie for her mama. In lyrical language and glowing pictures, Sugar Plum's bravery takes her beyond the realm of made-up explanations (like the stork) and nicknames (like Sugar Plum) as she learns the truth about birth and grows into her real name -- Wilhe'mina Miles.

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