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However, even more of an consequence (for me personally at to the lowest degree) is the presented writing way, the narrative flow of
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, the words used/encountered, and the way many of the characters act (or rather, emotionally, extremely deed out). For I practice discover Margaret Sidney's narrative way at best slightly scattered, unorganised and also frequently seriously overly emotional, with especially the Pepper children regularly screaming, laughing loudly, crying, on their knees praying (and constantly disclaiming or proclaiming their love, their fright, their pain, their joy). Of course, a novel where the characters are described as being mostly devoid of emotion would besides not be natural either, just in Five Little Peppers and How They Grew , the constant emotional outbursts actually make many of the characters seem rather exaggerated to and for me and fifty-fifty maybe slightly strange and unnatural, about as though they are divers primarily by their emotions (or rather past their excess of the same).Now I would all the same somewhat recommend
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, especially to those who are interested in what I phone call vintage girls' fiction or vintage family stories, but I do much wonder whether modern children would really enjoy this story, or wether they would also be (like I was and remain) more than slightly put off by the obvious and heavy-handed coincidences and specially the overly exaggerated emotionality of much of the printed text. And consequently, while I will likely end up reading the rest of the serial at some fourth dimension in the time to come, this will be more due to academic involvement and not necessarily considering I expect to in any ways profoundly enjoy reading the sequels. 2.5 stars (but not willing to consider 3 stars)! ...more
The outset, with the Peppers in their Petty Brown House and doing their best to make ends meet, is excellent. This is the part I recalled. But then prosperity strikes, and the 2 girls of the family are surround
I remembered this very fondly, but on re-read I discovered that the second function was entirely blocked out of my memory. No recollection of reading it at all. Perhaps I had to return the book to the library before finishing? A canis familiaris -- or younger sibling -- chewed the concluding half into shreds?The outset, with the Peppers in their Little Chocolate-brown House and doing their best to brand ends meet, is fantabulous. This is the function I recalled. Merely and so prosperity strikes, and the ii girls of the family unit are surrounded by kindly, loving people who continually hash out how wonderful the aforesaid girls are and "gentle reader fwowed up".
iv.5/five for before fortune smiles on the Peppers, 2/five for the aftermath. I'll average it out to a "3".
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It's always interesting as an adult to reread a book that I loved as a child. When I was young I thought how much fun the Peppers had and longed to belong to a large family. As an developed, I realize how poor the family really was and how speedily the children had to grow up. As a child I thought how terrible it was that Polly couldn't read for days on finish because of the measles; as an developed I realize the Peppers couldn't fifty-fifty beget to purchase books.
First published in 1881, "The Five Piffling Peppers and How They Grew" is former-fashioned (the physician fifty-fifty makes house calls!), but still enjoyable. The Peppers are all delightful children, with Joel being the most honest of the bunch as he complains about having to eat the same food every twenty-four hour period. Margaret Sidney was a talented writer, who could make even inanimate objects, such every bit the stove, seem alive. The children's adventures may seem elementary to today'south young readers, who are used to Harry Potter and the similar, but information technology'south a refreshing change.
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"5 Piddling Peppers" is well-nigh Mrs. Pepper and her five children, Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie. The family is not doing very well since Mr.
This volume 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 stop it in the month I was supposed to, merely dang I want something for finishing this."5 Little Peppers" is most Mrs. Pepper and her five children, Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie. The family unit is not doing very well since Mr. Pepper has died. Mrs. Pepper is a seamstress of some sort and is doing what she tin to keep her family fed and under 1 roof. Too bad her kids inquire repeatedly for things that they have to know their female parent tin can't afford and just at times act like jerks.
I really couldn't go a handle on everyone. The book actually doesn't period together very well. This whole thing felt like a collection that was than wrapped up into 1 book. Some chapters work well together, and others do not.
I didn't really care for the writing probably because Ms. Sidney chose to write the volume in the way that some young kids speak at sure ages. It drove me crazy sometimes to piece of work out what someone like Davie or Phronsie was trying to say.
The period was not nifty because once again not all chapters flowed into each other naturally. And in that location was a bigger problem as I said that the book equally a whole did not experience as cohesive equally information technology should have.
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While looking for a short novel to read after listening to six biographies, this beloved book from my childhood popped upward for gratuitous. I wondered if it would stand the test of time. My mother also loved to read. A child of the Depression, she had the reward of living in Washington, D.C. She didn't have much except free admission to libraries, and this book had been one of her favorites. In her early teens she was given a number a books by a spins
Audible.com half-dozen hours 50 min. Narrated by Grace Conlin (A)While looking for a short novel to read subsequently listening to vi biographies, this dear book from my childhood popped upward for free. I wondered if information technology would stand the test of fourth dimension. My mother also loved to read. A child of the Depression, she had the advantage of living in Washington, D.C. She didn't have much except gratuitous access to libraries, and this book had been one of her favorites. In her early on teens she was given a number a books past a spinster who lived in their tenement, and this book was one of them. She saved these books and they were office of my first library. Unfortunately the books were later stored in a basement and were lost as the outcome of flooding in the late sixties. I'grand certain I must have read the Peppers multiple times for me to remember every bit much as I did. When I came downward with measles as a child, my mother kept me in a darkened room, and I know she was fearful for my eyesight just similar Polly Pepper'southward mother was. Ah, the wonderful reward of modern vaccines.
I had no thought these books were still in print, much less available as recorded books. Are the stories dated? Yes. It was get-go published in 1881. Are the characters well-developed? Not really. Are the five Pepper children memorable? Yes! Did listening remind me of my female parent's love and ministering care? Most definitely! For sentimental reasons I'd give this book 5 stars!
Mikey Spillance novels non being of much interest yet, I picked up her old copy of the starting time Trivial Peppers novel because it was clearly a children's book. Indeed, the edition had been published when she was merely
In that location being no library in the nearest town, my early on reading during summers with Mother and my paternal grandmother in the latter'due south cottage near Lake Michigan was severely limited by what was on manus, by and large books belonging to "Nanny", my grandmother. Fortunately, she was quite a reader.Mikey Spillance novels not being of much involvement yet, I picked upward her erstwhile copy of the kickoff Little Peppers novel because it was clearly a children'south volume. Indeed, the edition had been published when she was just about my age.
Unfortunately, it was really deadening and really long, mayhap the longest books I'd read on my own by that fourth dimension. The tardily Victorian sentimentality of the author struck me, fifty-fifty then, as cloying, equally all-too-precious. Dark thoughts were evoked equally I began imagining disasters escalating into applesauce rather than always existence happily resolved.
Even so, I finished the thing and do have ane clear, rather pleasant memory of laying on my stomach on my parents' big bed downstairs on a detail sunny afternoon, book opened on their greenish corduroy spread.
The memory of that brings to mind another of the aforementioned bed in an earlier summer. It was custom going back as far as retentivity for me to run downstairs upon Nanny's daily announcement that she was intending to straighten upwards the rooms. There was just enough time for me to unzip their quilt cover and clamber in before she, with much accelerate warning, hobbled downward the stairs to confront the notoriously lumpy bedclothes. One lump--me!--was always especially recalcitrant, requiring much poking and proding before breaking up into giggles and laughter.
I auppose I may have perservered through Nanny'southward kid book partly out of respect for her. She was a wonderful grandmother.
That one-time steel bedframe, said to have come up from a hotel originally, is the 1 in my room to this day, Nanny and Mother being dead and the cottage in Michigan in ruins.
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I was delighted to discover I could instantly download to my Kindle what I presume is the Projection Gutenberg free version of this nineteenth century children'southward classic. The formatting is not the most presentable I've always seen in an ebook, due to missing tabs and hard returns to prepare off the paragraphs from each other. Fortunately, though, there are few typos, so this version of the book is readable eno
Review of the Project Gutenberg Free eBook Edition of this nineteenth-century children's archetypeI was delighted to notice I could instantly download to my Kindle what I presume is the Project Gutenberg free version of this nineteenth century children'due south classic. The formatting is not the nigh presentable I've ever seen in an ebook, due to missing tabs and difficult returns to set off the paragraphs from each other. Fortunately, though, there are few typos, so this version of the book is readable enough that I donated my paper copy to the library as I am gradually moving almost entirely to ebooks since I got my Kindle a yr and a half agone.
This book is about the Pepper family of five children and their widowed mother. "Mamsie" ekes out a bare living as a seamstress in a modest New England town (the state isn't specified but perhaps is intended to be the writer'southward native Connecticut). Though the story reads similar an historical novel to modernistic readers, information technology was actually a contemporary novel when information technology was written in 1881. There are horse-drawn carriages instead of cars, candlelight instead of electric lamps, no running water, no refrigeration, and no fundamental heating.
The Peppers live in a "niggling brown firm" whose furnishings are just lightly described. Perhaps this is because the house is mostly blank due to their extreme poverty, but it would have been interesting to know how the family acquired water for cooking and bathing (and how the family unit bathed), if they had a fireplace or a Franklin stove, or simply used the kitchen stove to heat the house in the wintertime. (The Picayune Firm books are keen for providing these historically authentic details, but non this series.)
Mrs. Pepper was widowed when her English husband died presumable shortly before or later her youngest child was born. We larn nothing about the children'southward male parent in this book as there is no attention at all to the family's "backstory." As the title of the book states, there are 5 siblings:
Ben (Ebenezer) is twelve years old. He had to be at least eight when the father died, but he has never gone to school--though somewhere along the way he and his sister Polly learned to read and write, probably taught by their mother since whatsoever school that the children might go to would cost tuition that Mrs. Pepper cannot afford. Throughout the story, Mrs. Pepper frequently frets over how she is ever going to get enough money to pay to brainwash her sons (in that location is no real concern about educating her daughters, perhaps because females of the working form were non unremarkably educated at this time). Ben augments Mamsie's income past doing odd jobs such as chopping wood. Ben has a placid, phlegmatic disposition, plodding along diligently through life, sure and steady in all he does. He is utterly loyal and would make any sacrifice for his family unit. He and Polly are particularly close.
Polly (Mary) is 11 years old. She and Ben human activity as second parents to their younger siblings whom they refer to as "the children." Polly has a nurturing disposition and is very motherly, but she likewise has a sensitive, imaginative disposition, which is a fascinating combination. She is the major focus of this book as she bustles about helping her mother with sewing, cooking meals for the family, cleaning the house, and caring for the younger children. She loves music and would requite anything to be able to learn to play the pianoforte. She adores any flowers that come her way, and the bane of her existence is the ancient woods stove she has to cook on which is full of holes that are stuffed with newspaper and leather from old shoes.
Joel is nine years old. He has a passionate, impulsive, choleric disposition. It is very hard for him to maintain the uncomplaining, sacrificial mental attitude Mamsie has worked difficult to instill in her children which comes easily to all the Peppers except him. He wants what he wants this instant, and he's very loud virtually his disappointment if he doesn't become it--in short, he's a normal boy who constantly puts the house in an uproar. Fortunately for the training Mamsie wants to instill in him, he has a warm heart and is readily brought into line with a judicious application of maternal or sisterly guilt.
Davie (David) is seven years one-time. He has a placid, timid disposition. He is Joel's shadow and is set to try anything Joel suggests.
Phronsie (Sophronia) is four at the fourth dimension of this story and is the adored baby of the family. Though she is indulged by everyone, because she is a cute, blond girl, she has a remarkably unspoiled disposition. She is then angelically sweet and kind to anybody, she inspires instant dear in every man, woman, child, and dog who meets her.
Though the family is barely scraping past, constantly on the verge of starvation (they live off whole-wheat bread, salted porridge, and potatoes), they have caring neighbors who try to help out when they tin can, which doesn't corporeality to a whole lot since anybody in the town is poor in their own way, and Mrs. Pepper is too proud to accept outright charity.
Two big crises lay the Peppers low during the form of this story: all the children get measles, which nearly makes Polly go bullheaded, and Phronsie runs off with an organ grinder and his monkey, terrifying the whole village for her safety.
It is this latter issue which brings Jappy (Jasper) King into their lives, the 13-year-sometime son of the very rich Mr. Rex, a crotchety "old" man staying at a local hotel to meliorate his uncertain health. (Notation that what was considered "old" in the latter part of the nineteenth century is not what we would consider "old" today. The boilerplate life expectancy at the plough of the twentieth century was little more than forty, and oftentimes people in their fifties in nineteenth century novels were labeled by authors equally "sometime." Mr. Rex's age is never given, but I tried to effigy it out this manner: Mr. King is clearly a widower. Jasper has a much older sis with iii sons, the oldest of which is ten at this time, meaning she is at to the lowest degree twenty-nine, making Mr. Male monarch very probable fifty-v or 60 years of age.) Mr. King's source of wealth isn't mentioned in the book, and we never hear of him going to work, and so possibly he has inherited wealth rather than holding a task.
Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of successful, American children's writer, Harriett Mulford Rock Lothrop, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1844 and died in 1924, viii years after writing the terminal Pepper volume. She began her writing career in 1878 at age thirty-four by publishing stories about Polly and Phronsie Pepper in a Boston children's magazine. She married the magazine's editor, Daniel Lothrop, who began a publishing company and published Harriett'southward "Five Lilliputian Peppers" series, starting in 1881. Here is a list of the twelve Pepper books by date written, which were produced over the course of xxx-v years:
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881)
5 Footling Peppers Midway (1890)
Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892)
Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper (1897)
Five Footling Peppers: The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899)
Five Little Peppers: The Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900)
5 Picayune Peppers Abroad (1902)
Five Little Peppers At School (1903)
5 Little Peppers and Their Friends (1904)
5 Little Peppers: Ben Pepper (1905)
Five Little Peppers in the Picayune Brown Business firm (1907)
Five Lilliputian Peppers: Our Davie Pepper (1916)
Margaret Sidney originally had no plans to write more than Pepper books subsequently the fourth volume, "Phronsie Pepper", was published in 1897. She stated this firmly in her introduction to that book. Nevertheless, over time the pleas of avid fans from all over the world caused her to give in and write eight more Pepper books. The events in the last viii books take place before the events of the tertiary book in the original series of four books. If you would similar to read the six chief Pepper books in chronological order, rather than by publication appointment, this is the ideal sequence:
"Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"
"5 Little Peppers Midway"
"Five Little Peppers Abroad"
"Five Little Peppers and Their Friends"
"Five Piffling Peppers Grown Up"
"Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper"
If you read all the Pepper books, you will discover that the author did not accept nifty care as to continuity in the later books, perchance because and then many years passed between writing these books. I am currently re-reading the serial and have just finished this volume and the second book, "Midway," and am currently reading "Abroad." In "Midway," the author states that 5 years accept passed since the events of "How They Grew," but no ages are given for any of the children except Phronsie. We are told she is eight, which is one year younger than she ought to be if five years take passed. In "Away," whose events begin immediately after "Midway," Polly has her fifteenth altogether a few months into the events of the book, when it ought to be at least her sixteenth birthday given that she was eleven in the commencement volume and presumably already xv or sixteen in the 2nd book.
The Pepper books are non concerned with border-of-the-seat action, which is one of the things I personally like nigh them. They are products of a much slower-paced era, and it is relaxing to feel that approach to children'southward fiction while being warmly enfolded into the loving Pepper family unit.
This book, and all the Pepper books, are strictly G-rated, and the values they show (non tell through preaching) are very useful ones for whatsoever child to be exposed to, including civility, kindness, consideration, keeping commitments, accepting hard circumstances without complaint and forging through them, and then on.
I highly recommend this book for all ages.
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You can't go home again.
I could see why I loved this book as a child only, oh does it have some issues. In that location are two single-parent households with no explanation as to what happened to the missing parents. Characters drop into the story with no introduction, just all of a sudden "Bob" is in that location and you're wondering who the hell "Bob" is. My largest issue with
This is one of my favorite books from babyhood and, in a fit of readerly nostalgia, I decided to re-read information technology for the first time in decades.You lot tin't go dwelling house again.
I could see why I loved this volume as a child just, oh does information technology have some issues. At that place are 2 unmarried-parent households with no caption every bit to what happened to the missing parents. Characters drib into the story with no introduction, just of a sudden "Bob" is there and y'all're wondering who the hell "Bob" is. My largest issue with this book, though, lies in the thought of the rich older man swooping in and "rescuing" the Peppers from their poor-but-happy existence because he has a deep affection for a four-year-one-time. (I'g not sure if he offers to marry Mrs. Pepper or hire her as his housekeeper. Maybe they're one and the same to him. And I really don't desire to think likewise securely about his deep, immediate amore for Phronsie.)
I'1000 non giving this a star rating because form school me gives it v stars with sparkles and rainbows and adult me would be feeling generous to give it two stars.
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I did notice this fourth dimension through how much the Pepper children mutter about what they don't have. It'southward totally understandable given some of the nuts they accept to practice without (!), only as well probably wasn't helpful to my ain childhood habits of wishing I had nicer things that 'everyone else' seemed to have
2021 reread: I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting the Pepper family! Yep, information technology's cliched, and maybe a lilliputian cheesy, just just such a happy and cozy story, even through all the difficult times the family unit has.I did notice this fourth dimension through how much the Pepper children complain well-nigh what they don't accept. It's totally understandable given some of the basics they have to do without (!), only also probably wasn't helpful to my own babyhood habits of wishing I had nicer things that 'anybody else' seemed to have.
Otherwise, there's very footling in the way of content concerns--passing references to the death of their male parent, and to war, and a few unwise choices (very normal and understandable for their age levels, and also generally corrected). Children who are very prone to repeating phrases may option upwardly some slang words from the era such as the assertion 'whockety!'.
Original review: I know I actually enjoyed and re-read this 1 quite a fleck in my childhood. I should really re-read it over again in my adulthood so I tin can give it proper review.
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I'll read Kidnapped instead.
DNF - twoscore pages in,,, dnf - not even for a Reading Challenge (Children's Archetype you've never read).I'll read Kidnapped instead.
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In any case, Louisa May Alcott is a much better writer than Margaret Sidney. The Pepper children are just too perfectly good to be true, and none of the characters is particularly well-drawn. That said, it gives a realistic clarification of Polly as a "parentified child" who feels that her master purpose in life is to help her mother support the family. She is simply persuaded to pursue her own didactics when she is convinced that her mother volition be more distressed by her failure to do so than by the loss of her practical and emotional back up.
...more than The Pepper family would before long become dearest 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 appeali
Pen name of Harriet Mulford Rock Lothrop.The Pepper family would soon become dearest 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 arduousness, and reverberate 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.
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