five little peppers and how they grew by margaret sidney

And yes, in particular the serendipity presented at the end of the novel (when Percy, Van and Dick's father returns and is revealed to be Mrs.

Rather episodic in nature, and definitely of its time (there are elements of religious preachiness, strict gender roles and definite social stratification present), the chapters, while generally readable and at least mildly enjoyable, are also at times rather majorly far fetched, with some rather too obvious coincidences (so much so, that there at least sometimes seems to be an almost fairy-tale like aura of disbelief encountered, which can be a bit disconcerting, as Five Little Peppers and How They Grew seems to have been primarily written as a piece of realistic fiction). And there was a bigger problem as I said that the book as a whole did not feel as cohesive as it should have.The first of a series, Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (first published in 1881) tells the story of the Pepper family (five siblings and their widowed mother), their joys, their struggles, their love for one another.

The flow was not great because once again not all chapters flowed into each other naturally. It drove me crazy sometimes to work out what someone like Davie or Phronsie was trying to say. Sidney chose to write the book in the way that some young kids speak at certain ages. I didn't really care for the writing probably because Ms. Some chapters work well together, and others do not. This whole thing felt like a collection that was than wrapped up into one book. The book really doesn't flow together very well. I really couldn't get a handle on everyone. Too bad her kids ask repeatedly for things that they have to know their mother can't afford and just at times act like jerks. Pepper is a seamstress of some sort and is doing what she can to keep her family fed and under one roof. The family is not doing very well since Mr. Pepper and her five children, Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie. So I don't count this book towards the genre challenge since I didn't finish it in the month I was supposed to, but dang I want something for finishing this. I was supposed to read this a few months ago for Dead Writers Society genre challenge and never got back to it in time.

This book took me forever to finish and I finished it in starts and fits.

Five little peppers and how they grew by margaret sidney