Kit meets economic adversity with courage, spunk.
Parents need to know that this is a tale of a family adapting to Dad's job loss during the Great Depression. There is a clear, age-appropriate description of why the economy is suffering and frank depictions via photographs and dialog of the effects of the national financial downturn. A sickly boy is treated with derision but proves hardier than he seems. In 1930s America, fathers work and mothers stay home.