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I know most people love the Christmas scene in this book but my favorite has always been and will always be the letter writing.
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Five Little Peppers #1
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
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Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper has to sew all day long just to earn enough to pay the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a stout heart, a smiling face, and the help of her jolly brood: blue-eyed Ben, the eldest and the man of the house at the age of 11; pretty Polly, so eager to cook for the family and make everyone happy and comfortable; and the three littlest Peppers, Joel, Davie, and baby Phronsie.
A favorite of children, parents, and teachers for generations, this heartwarming classic first appeared in 1880. Since then, it has inspired countless young imaginations with its tender tales of the ways in which courage and good cheer can overcome adversity.
A favorite of children, parents, and teachers for generations, this heartwarming classic first appeared in 1880. Since then, it has inspired countless young imaginations with its tender tales of the ways in which courage and good cheer can overcome adversity.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1881
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352 pages, Paperback
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June 1, 2006 by Aladdin
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9781416916178
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1416916172
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English
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Joel Pepper
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So many wonderful messages about happiness and contentment and love--all of them independent of material wealth. Great family read aloud.
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I've loved this sweet story since childhood. The children are very real, mostly, and the adults supportive and thoughtful.
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This was a family read-aloud. My older two (ages 7 and 5) LOVED it. The language is beautiful and it’s just a sweet story about a single widowed mother and her five children living together as a family and taking care of one another. We will definitely read again with my younger children.
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This was one of my favorite books as I was growing up, and I have no idea how many times I read it. It was one of the first books that, as a child, gave me a little understanding of what "hard times" might actually look like. I couldn't imagine needing to save sewing thread to be re-used!
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I'm not having very good luck reading my favorite books from childhood lately. This one was lovely during about the first half, but then it became dreadfully boring during the second half.
The five little Peppers are 5 poor brothers and sisters ranging in ages 4-9 who live with their widowed (we assume) mother in late 1800s America. For some reason that I don't quite grasp, Polly, the 9-year-old, seems to be all the children's mother of choice. It's implied that the 8-year-old works for a living. And the 4-year old runs off with an organ grinder and his monkey and then gets lost again wandering off to the post office by herself. The interesting thing is that the 4-year-old is never admonished not to run off alone or with strangers after these incidents. Instead, the blame is placed on people not watching her. I'm guessing that she must get full-out kidnapped in future books since they've never bothered to talk with her about what she's been doing wrong. It really would serve them right.
To be fair, this is probably a more enjoyable read for a child who isn't analyzing the storyline from the viewpoint of being a mother. It is definitely a great book for children to become acquainted with what it's like for children who grow up so poor that they've never even had a Christmas. And there are parts of the story that I remember fondly from childhood like the hard-of-hearing grandmother, the thrill of having raisins for a cake, decorating a Christmas tree with strings of popcorn (which I insisted that we do the first time I read this as a child), and the organ grinder's little monkey. All of these are in the first half of the book, of course. I'd give 5 stars for the first half of the book and 2 stars for the last half of the book, averaging it out to a nice 3.5 stars, rounded down to 3.
The five little Peppers are 5 poor brothers and sisters ranging in ages 4-9 who live with their widowed (we assume) mother in late 1800s America. For some reason that I don't quite grasp, Polly, the 9-year-old, seems to be all the children's mother of choice. It's implied that the 8-year-old works for a living. And the 4-year old runs off with an organ grinder and his monkey and then gets lost again wandering off to the post office by herself. The interesting thing is that the 4-year-old is never admonished not to run off alone or with strangers after these incidents. Instead, the blame is placed on people not watching her. I'm guessing that she must get full-out kidnapped in future books since they've never bothered to talk with her about what she's been doing wrong. It really would serve them right.
To be fair, this is probably a more enjoyable read for a child who isn't analyzing the storyline from the viewpoint of being a mother. It is definitely a great book for children to become acquainted with what it's like for children who grow up so poor that they've never even had a Christmas. And there are parts of the story that I remember fondly from childhood like the hard-of-hearing grandmother, the thrill of having raisins for a cake, decorating a Christmas tree with strings of popcorn (which I insisted that we do the first time I read this as a child), and the organ grinder's little monkey. All of these are in the first half of the book, of course. I'd give 5 stars for the first half of the book and 2 stars for the last half of the book, averaging it out to a nice 3.5 stars, rounded down to 3.
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This was fairly typical fare for its era: poor child melts the heart of a crotchety old rich man, with lots feel good moments and unlikely coincidences. I enjoyed the first part of the story the most, the Pepper family were resourceful and very likeable. Once they became entwined with the King family I found it less enjoyable. I just didn't like Mr King; I found him controlling and manipulative. However I enjoyed it enough to go on to the sequel.
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In between mystery, fiction and all the adult thinking stuff i really love to read family book, or children's classics, everyday life books. So i enjoyed this book very much, specially because it was written in late 1800s. To find out more about how they lived, what they did is very interesting to me. 4 stars.
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