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Title: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney, Grace Conlin ISBN: 0-7861-0882-7 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Peppers we know and love
Comment: This book is about a poor family of five children and their widowed mother. It's about their troubles of being poor and their ability to always look on the bright side. Sidney tells about how the family deals with their problems. The family goes through many hardships, such as an illness throughout the family and a temporary blindness occurring. They think all is over when a twist of fate turns their spirits around.
This book has a great storyline with well-developed characters. It has some tougher words which makes the book an older children's novel. But it is a wonderful book and the author did an excellent job making the reader believe he or she is actually there seeing what's going on and really knowing the characters. I would recommend this book to readers who like stories of growing up and dealing with hardships.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lovely, old fashioned tale for still-innocent children.
Comment: This book is written in the style of its time (first published in 1881). It is the tale of an appealing and almost-implausibly loving family of five children their mother. Their father has died and they are managing, though barely, on their own. Poverty is continuous but not oppressive. The Peppers are resourceful and vigorous. The children lack for nothing when it comes to love, and must substitute industry and premature responsibilities for academic education.
They seem not to suffer much. The devotion of their mother to their well being, and the jollity and flair for fun the children possess temper what might otherwise be, for modern children, a frightening prospect. I read this book to my almost-six year old daughter, who was enthralled, enchanted and amused by the exploits of these five youngsters. Their serious bout with measles, their poor circumstances, their unquenchable good spirits, and their close relationships provided plenty of drama for this chi! ld who does not depend on special effects or motorized games for entertainment. In other words, though the story is old fashioned, even obvious and unsubtle in its moral message of love and devotion, it is still rich with possibilities for a child with imagination.
It is a kind of fairy tale, in the end, as the family circumstances are changed due to a somewhat fantastical coincidence of relatedness with a family of considerable means. But children have no trouble suspending their disbelief, and they love happy endings. The essential values are ones to which families of today still ascribe: love, devotion, simplicity, self reliance, and more. Its old fashioned flavor is one of its charms, particularly for children (and their parents) who have an affinity for things old fashioned, and whose language ability can accommodate more formal speech and turns of phrase now in disuse.
My daughter is hounding me for sequels, of which there are many, and of which I was unaware. ! I recommend this book to families who want to acquaint thei! r children with times past and the timeless qualities that are possible within families. It is a good and quiet book with simple, if difficult problems, and characters any child would do well to emulate. It would interest children who have enjoyed "Sarah Plain and Tall," and the "Little House" books, among others.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absorbing Story & Historical Information
Comment: "Five Little Peppers" is a lovely, absorbing story that also provides children with a clue about life before television, computers and malls. My daughter, age 8, describes it as a book she would like to "jump into." Two notes about the current HarperFestival paperback version: The cover illustration of the HarperFestival edition is highly misleading in that it depicts a family in essentially contemporary clothing. Also, the tape used to affix the accompanying necklace is so sticky that it can ruin the inside cover a bit when detaching.
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Title: Five Little Peppers at School by Margaret Sidney ISBN: 0899665527 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: June, 1987 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Five Little Peppers Midway by Margaret Sidney ISBN: 0899665500 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport (Bobbsey Twins, No 1) by Laura Lee Hope, Nancy S. Axelrad, Pepe Gonzalez ISBN: 0448090716 Publisher: Price Stern Sloan Pub Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney ISBN: 0899663419 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney ISBN: 0899665519 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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