Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew was originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a children's magazine. The publisher of the magazine, Daniel Lothrop, loved the Pepper stories so much that he published a hard-cover edition of the story -- and married the author in 1881. In 1883...
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew was originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a children's magazine. The publisher of the magazine, Daniel Lothrop, loved the Pepper stories so much that he published a hard-cover edition of the story -- and married the author in 1881. In 1883 the couple moved to historic Concord, Massachusetts, and resided in a house called the Wayside, which had previously been home to Nathaniel Hawthorne and also to Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416916178 (1416916172)
Publish date: June 1st 2006
Publisher: Aladdin
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Five Little Peppers (#1)
This book took me forever to finish and I finished it in starts and fits. I was supposed to read this a few months ago for Dead Writers Society genre challenge and never got back to it in time. So I don't count this book towards the genre challenge since I didn't finish it in the month I was suppose...
This is a cute, classic book about a poor family ... who, as is typical in these tales, is making the best of what they have. The five Pepper children, and their widowed mother, are hard-working folks who find blessings in everything ... even when young Phronsie runs away and is rescued by Jasper an...
The Peppers are horribly poor, too poor for the children to go to school, too poor to celebrate Christmas, too poor to even buy an envelope to mail a letter in. Then the Peppers meet Jasper and their lives do a complete turnaround. Five years I've had the Five Little Peppers. I've finally completed ...
SUCH a charming book. I loved it, and little Phronsie is utterly adorable :-)
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