Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

  Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Albanyaloe of South Africa, 10/9/2011

The Five Little Peppers is a delightful story of the five Pepper children, in the 1800's, who live in the Little Brown House with their mother. Mrs Pepper is a dear sweet lady, a widow, who works hard to keep them all together and well kept, in extremely trying circumstances. The children show intense love and devotion toward each other and their mother. The older ones work in various ways to contribute to the meager family income. Yet, somehow they always seem to see something to be happy about, however simple it is.
Then, as if life isn't hard enough, severe illness and other misfortune visit the family. Will the Pepper family see it through and stay together?
A lovely family read aloud, for the mature K student and above. Theme of gratitude, thankfulness and perseverence runs through the novel.