Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse by Helen Wells

I started the quest at, a comprehensive search site with a database of more than 100 million new and used books for sale from inventories around the world. 5 through 8 this year), the obvious solution was to hunt for used copies online. Since most have long been out of print (Springer Publishing last fall released a boxed set of the first four in the series and plans to republish Nos. I would need to reassemble the collection of the 27 books.

(It was from Cherry that I first learned about a breakthrough called penicillin.)

'Cherry's so brave,' she said.Īhead of Clementine lay many, many thrilling hours of bombing raids, dashing but difficult doctors and arcane details about 1940's nursing school procedures and medical miracles. She said faintly, 'I can't wash it off, sir, it's - 'Ĭlementine looked up. Wylie mistakes for makeup the natural coloring that gave the nursing probationer her nickname: 'Wipe that rouge off your face!' he ordered. 1, where (as many faithful readers of a certain age will remember) the bombastic Dr. 'Mommy, what's a Cherry Ames?' Clementine asked me the other day while she was scouring the shelves for something to read.Īn hour later I found her cross-legged on the floor, engrossed in of No. There the books might even now be moldering if I had not had given childbirth another go in 1997. Perhaps this explained how the remnants of my childhood obsession ended up on a low bookshelf in the basement. 18).Ī department store nurse? O.K., maybe Cherry was a little dated. Go back and keep those men calm.') Nor were they interested in her postwar nursing assignments in private duty (No. 2 in the 27-book series) or to her harrowing stint as a wartime flight nurse. So they never made it to 'Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse' (No.

I started my two older daughters on 'Cherry Ames, Student Nurse' as soon as they could sound out phrases like 'glowing cheeks' and 'morphine as needed.'īut Zoe and Ella said they would rather be doctors. (Were there many girls of my generation who didn't admire Cherry's crisp white uniforms, brave loyalty and rosy complexion?) And I expected my children to follow suit. I had loved reading about the escapades of the plucky World War II nursing heroine created by the author Helen Wells. HOW many times does someone have to give birth to get a child who loves Cherry Ames?

Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse by Helen Wells