title: You're Getting a Baby Brother!
author:  Sheila Sweeny Higginson 
description: Sheila Sweeny Higginson is an award-winning author who has worked in childrens and educational publishing for twenty years. She has written more than 100 books for children. Sheila lives with her husband Felipe and their two children in Brooklyn, New York.
zlib_text: A Fine Surprise
  
  
  
  
  
  Three excited boys stood on a station platform, waiting for a train to come
  in.
  
  
  The trains late, said Mike, impatiently. Five minutes late already.
  
  
  Im going to tell the girls the news, said Jack.
  
  
  Im going to tell them! said Prince Paul, his big dark eyes glowing. Its
  my news, not yours.
  
  
  All right, all right, said Mike. You tell Nora and Peggy then, but dont be
  too long about it or I shall simply have to burst in!
  
  
  The three boys were waiting for Nora and Peggy to come back from their
  boarding-school for the summer holidays. Mike, Jack and Prince Paul all went
  to the same boys boarding-school, and they had broken up the day before. Mike
  was the twin brother of Nora, and Peggy was his other sister, a year older
  than Mike and Nora.
  
  
  Jack was their adopted brother. He had no father or mother of his own, so
  Captain and Mrs Arnold, the childrens father and mother, had taken him into
  their family, and treated him like another son. He went to