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The Peterkin Papers (New York Review Children's Collection)
The Peterkin Papers - New York Review Children's Collection Author:Lucretia P. Hale 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... more » 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.« less
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