The Peterkin Papers
Hale, Lucretia P.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Before Amelia Bedelia and the Stupids there were the Peterkins. The Peterkin Papers collects all of Lucretia Hales beloved tales of a thoroughly silly family.
The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respecta
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Before Amelia Bedelia and the Stupids there were the Peterkins. The Peterkin Papers collects all of Lucretia Hale’s beloved tales of a thoroughly silly family.
A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted, as every family is, by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise all occasions with inimitably misguided aplomb: they sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they’ve forgotten to unhitch the horse, they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way, they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the Lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkins out of their latest scrape and restore order.
The Peterkins restore our astonishment at the ordinary, finding a rich vein of humor and happy surprise in the mere fact of our surviving the trivialities and tribulations of family life.
BOOK REVIEWS
How sorry we have felt for those who knew not Lucretia Hale and the Peterkinsa masterpiece.
The New York Times
Lucretia P. Hales Peterkin family and the lady from Philadelphia are standard characters in American fiction, and surely that is much to say of an author in these book-crowded daysFew writers leave behind them such a tribute to their greatness as the Peterkins are to Lucretia P. Hale, for the years pass them along to every new generation with the hint that human nature is about the same everywhere and all the time.Harpers Bazaar
People young and old, solemn and gay, rich and poor, will be glad to welcome a new edition of the Peterkin Papers. It is pleasant to meet the Peterkin family againThe Chicago Tribune
[Lucretia Hale is] among the best of American women writers. --Harpers Bazaar
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1590172124
ISBN(13-digit): 9781590172124
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: 2006017647
Book Publisher: Random House Distribution childrens
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 302
Paper Weight (lb): 1.05 lb
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