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Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR AND RARE--------------Five Little Peppers & How They Grew by MARGARET SIDNEY, Pen name of Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop, ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM SHARP........... The Pepper family would soon become beloved by readers all over America. Young people avidly followed the adventures of Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie. While faced with many plausible trials and obstacles they remain eternally optimistic in the face of adversity, and reflect the real life issues of so many of their readers. Their universally appealing wholesome values and lives are not burdened with a heavy moralising tone which was present in many other popular works of the day....... ......GORGEOUS FULL-COLOR (and B&W), FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.......... This is the hardcover (no dj) only stated G&D FIRST EDITION FROM 1948. Other than a hint of cover wear, and cover to book could use a bit of tape (fully intact!), the book (no dj) is in excellent reading condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. So bid now for this magnificent, impossible-to-find CHILDREN'S LITERARY COLLECTIBLE.

"Full of incident, full of fun, and none the less full of sound, practical, moral and religious teaching." -Congregationalist "Margaret Sidney stands side by side with Louisa Alcott, in fresh, unstilted style, in refined sensibility, and in pure and wholesome depiction of home life among children." -Journal of Education "This is a story of five little American children, who are left with their widowed mother in very straitened circumstances. In describing the sunshine of their home life, the writer teaches a lesson in a pleasant way to the small inmates of wealthier homes. Polly and Phronsie are charming characters, and show that the author both knows and loves children." -The Academy and Literature "She writes from an experience in which wisdom and sympathy have been felicitously blended." -Saturday Evening Gazette "It is seldom one finds so much simplicity and naturalness combined with so much interest in a child's story." -Chicago Times "We may remark as evidence of the extraordinary popularity of this series that nearly half a million copies of this particular volume have been sold, while its successors, nearly a dozen in number, have had almost equal popularity." -New Outlook "Children cannot fail to be interested in books which relate - story fashion - events that might just as well have really happened, and the Five Little Peppers have lots of fun and plenty of events in their lives, and are real, human children after all." -The American Bookseller "One of the most successful juvenile books of the past five years." -The American: A National Journal "A book which has been popular with young people for years." -The Bookman CONTENTS: A Home View Making Happiness for Mamsie Mamsie's Birthday Trouble for the Little Brown House More Trouble Hard Days for Polly The Cloud Over the Little Brown House Joel's Turn Sunshine Again A Threatened Blow Safe New Friends Phronsie Pays a Debt of Gratitude A Letter to Jasper Jolly Days Getting a Christmas for the Little Ones Christmas Bells! Education Ahead Brave Work and the Reward Polly is Comforted Phronsie Getting Ready for Mamsie and the Boys Which Treats of a Good Many Matters Polly's Dismal Morning Polly's Big Bundle

6 Audio CD's - 6 Hours and 57 Minutes. The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story the Pepper family, Mamsie (the widowed mother), and children Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie as they live, learn, and play in their "little brown house". They are poor, and Mamsie and the children must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door but they do it with gaiety and spirit in abundance. The Peppers make due with whatever they have and the elder children try to make things special for the younger. Though tragedies often befall them, they bear it as best they are able and make the most of the good in life. Our CDs are packaged in premium DVD cases with CD labeling printed right on the CD in full color. We do not use paper stick-on labels, these tend to peel off over time and can really jam up car CD players and computers. We chose to use DVD cases for our CD sets, as we have found they hold up better in shipping and in regular usage than the typical CD jewel case. Please note: All recordings we offer on CD are produced with recordings from Librivox, public domain works recorded by volunteers. We at St. Clare Audio would like to thank the volunteers for their gift of offering their work to the public domain. St. Clare Audio's niche is providing them in ready-to-purchase CD sets, for those who cannot download, or have not the desire or time to do so, as well as the benefit of a nice case and professionally produced CDs. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Audiobook is read by Rachel Ellen.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of mid-day; and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday aspect, that as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently proper it should have. It was just on the edge of the twilight; and the little Peppers, all except Ben, the oldest of the flock, were enjoying a "breathing spell," as their mother called it, which meant some quiet work suitable for the hour. All the "breathing spell" they could remember however, poor things; for times were always hard with them nowadays; and since the father died, when Phronsie was a baby, Mrs. Pepper had had hard work to scrape together money enough to put bread into her children's mouths, and to pay the rent of the little brown house.