Mrs. Lavender Botts, author of My Chums the Pixies, How to Talk to the Flowers, and Many of My Best Friends Are Mosquitoes in Excelsior. Wife of Ponsford, mother of Irwin and Cosmo. Aunt of Angela Pirbright in Joy Bells for Walter, where her works include a book on field mice titled similarly to her opus on mosquitoes.

• Excelsior
• Joy Bells for Walter