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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew: A Classic Children's Family Story
Paperback
FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617204753
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Dec 20 2011
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew is a warm, enduring classic of children's literature about poverty, family loyalty, courage, and the high spirits of five unforgettable siblings. In the little brown house, widowed Mrs. Pepper-known lovingly as Mamsie-works tirelessly to care for her children: responsible Ben, lively Polly, impulsive Joel, thoughtful Davie, and beloved little Phronsie. The Peppers have very little money, but they have affection, imagination, resilience, and a powerful belief in helping one another through hardship.
First published in 1881, Margaret Sidney's novel became the beginning of the beloved Five Little Peppers series and remained a favourite with generations of young readers. Its appeal lies in the balance between domestic realism and bright family feeling: illness, scarcity, work, worry, and danger are all present, but so are play, kindness, humour, and the children's determination to grow up well despite difficult circumstances. When the Pepper children's lives become connected with Jasper King and his wealthy grandfather, the story widens from the little brown house into a larger world of friendship, opportunity, and moral testing.
This SMK edition is well suited for readers of classic children's fiction, family stories, sibling adventures, nineteenth-century juvenile literature, domestic fiction, and books in the tradition of Little Women, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Pollyanna. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew remains a generous, readable story about children shaped by love, poverty, work, and hope.
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