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Five Little Peppers #1-12
Five Little Peppers - The Complete Collection: All Twelve Books By Margaret Sidney
Including Every Title From Margaret Sidney's Much-Loved Series
Margaret Sidney's wonderful tales of the Pepper family growing up together in the 'Little Brown House" have charmed readers of all ages for many decades. Under the loving care of the hard-working widow 'Mamsie' Pepper, the Five Little Peppers get into adventures and scrapes, but always benefit from being together as one happy family. There's Ben and Polly, the elder of the two Peppers, Joel and Davie the two little boys, and lovely baby Phronsie, the darling of the family. Between them they grow up, fall in love and eventually have children of their own - filling the Little Brown house with another generation of happiness and laughter.
This comprehensive collection contains all 12 of the "Five Little Peppers' books, complete and unabridged, in one beautifully formatted volume with a fully usable Table of Contents.
Included:
All twelve 'Five Little Peppers' Books by Margaret Sidney - published in consecutive order.
An interactive table of contents with specific entries for every chapter of each individual book.
Perfect formatting to avoid errors commonly found in some ebook collections.
Books included:
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
- Five Little Peppers Midway
- Five Little Peppers Grown Up
- Phronsie Pepper
- The Stories Polly Pepper Told
- The Adventures of Joel Pepper
- Five Little Peppers Abroad
- Five Little Peppers at School
- Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
- Ben Pepper
- Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House
- Our Davie Pepper
Margaret Sidney's wonderful tales of the Pepper family growing up together in the 'Little Brown House" have charmed readers of all ages for many decades. Under the loving care of the hard-working widow 'Mamsie' Pepper, the Five Little Peppers get into adventures and scrapes, but always benefit from being together as one happy family. There's Ben and Polly, the elder of the two Peppers, Joel and Davie the two little boys, and lovely baby Phronsie, the darling of the family. Between them they grow up, fall in love and eventually have children of their own - filling the Little Brown house with another generation of happiness and laughter.
This comprehensive collection contains all 12 of the "Five Little Peppers' books, complete and unabridged, in one beautifully formatted volume with a fully usable Table of Contents.
Included:
All twelve 'Five Little Peppers' Books by Margaret Sidney - published in consecutive order.
An interactive table of contents with specific entries for every chapter of each individual book.
Perfect formatting to avoid errors commonly found in some ebook collections.
Books included:
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
- Five Little Peppers Midway
- Five Little Peppers Grown Up
- Phronsie Pepper
- The Stories Polly Pepper Told
- The Adventures of Joel Pepper
- Five Little Peppers Abroad
- Five Little Peppers at School
- Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
- Ben Pepper
- Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House
- Our Davie Pepper
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First published January 1, 1881
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About the author
Margaret Sidney
75 books44 followersMargaret Sidney was the pen name of American author and publisher Harriett Lothrop, best known for creating the enduring Five Little Peppers series, one of the most popular works of American children's literature of the late 19th century. Raised in a cultured and literary household in New Haven, she developed an early passion for storytelling and imaginative writing, though she did not publish until her mid-thirties. Her breakthrough came with short stories for the magazine Wide Awake, whose enthusiastic reception led to the publication of Five Little Peppers in 1881 and a long-running series that followed the Pepper family through numerous sequels. Writing under the name Margaret Sidney, she became widely read by generations of young audiences. After the death of her husband, publisher Daniel Lothrop, she successfully managed his publishing firm while raising their daughter, later returning to writing and continuing the Pepper books. Beyond literature, she played a significant role in American cultural life, helping to establish Concord, Massachusetts, as a literary center and working to preserve historic homes. She was also the founder of the Children of the American Revolution, reflecting her strong interest in history, education, and civic values.
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April 3, 2025
Convenient, complete collection of Margaret Sidney’s classic children’s books
This collection offers an excellent opportunity to purchase the entire series of 12 Pepper books in one convenient volume. This Kindle book is quite readable, with good formatting and few editing errors.
Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of successful, American children's author, Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1844 and died in 1924, eight years after writing the last Pepper book. 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's Pepper series, starting in 1881. These books were written during the 35-year period of 1881-1916.
This Kindle book is organized with this each of the 12 Pepper books placed in the order of its publication date:
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881)
Five Little Peppers Midway (1890)
Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892)
Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper (1897)
Five Little Peppers: The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899)
Five Little Peppers: The Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900)
Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902)
Five Little Peppers at School (1903)
Five Little Peppers and Their Friends (1904)
Five Little Peppers: Ben Pepper (1905)
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907)
Five Little Peppers: Our Davie Pepper (1916)
That is certainly a valid choice. Personally, however, when I recently read this entire collection, I found it most logical to read them in chronological order, by the date within the stories themselves. This is a list of the Pepper books, chronologically:
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) (“HTG”)
Five Little Peppers: The Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900) (“Joel”)
Five Little Peppers: Our Davie Pepper (1916) (“Davie”)
Five Little Peppers: The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899) (“Stories”)
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907) (“LBH”)
Five Little Peppers Midway (1890) (“Midway”) (4 years after HTG)
Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902) (“Abroad”)
Five Little Peppers At School (1903) (“School”)
Five Little Peppers and Their Friends (1904) (“Friends”)
Five Little Peppers: Ben Pepper (1905) (“Ben”)
Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892) (“Grown”) (9 years after HTG)
Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper (1897) (“Phronsie”) (16 years after HTG)
HTG, Midway, Grown, and Phronsie were written as contemporary novels between 1881-1897 and, naturally enough, they have a 19th century sensibility, which MS maintained in the later books, even though they were completed a generation later, early in the 20th century, which era experienced rapid advances in technology and transportation. Since the events of the first book occur in 1881, the date of its publication, and 16 years pass within the Pepper world between that book and Phronsie, which is the final entry, chronologically, in this series, this means that the year of that book’s publication, 1897, coincidentally, is also the same year it would be in the Pepper story world.
The social attitudes on display in these novels reflect the era of their publication, sometimes in good ways, but also in unfortunate ways—in particular for the latter, the attitudes toward African-Americans and women. Some of that historically accurate information can be quite jarring to modern readers. This is also an era before modern medicine, and the treatments for illness and injury described in these novels are quite backward according to 21st century standards. Clothing, including shoes, is handmade, rather than off-the-rack. There is no electricity, and houses in this story are lit at night by candles. There are no phones, only postal letters, hand-carried messages, and telegrams. There are no automobiles, only horseback riding, horse-drawn carts and carriages and, when the characters travel outside their local township, they take a train. Transportation in the city also includes trolleys.
Margaret Sidney originally had no plans to write more Pepper books after Phronsie was published. She states this firmly in her introduction to that book. However, 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 School and Friends occur around the same time as the events in Midway. The events in Abroad occur right after Midway. The events in Ben occur after Abroad. The events in Joel and Davie occur during the same time period as the first part of HTG, when Joel and Davie are nine and seven years old, respectively. LBH and Stories consist of short stories about the Peppers before they went to live with Jasper and Mr. King midway through HTG.
If you read all, or most, of the Pepper books, you will discover that MS did not take great care to maintain continuity in these novels. For example, she is frequently inconsistent about the ages of the Pepper children, in comparison to the amount of years she states has passed since HTG. Most frustrating to me personally is her muddled focus on city settings. In some books she implies that Mr. King’s mansion is in New York City, and in other books she implies that it is located in some other unnamed city.
Another quirk in MS’s writing is her description of Mr. King’s as “old” across the entire series. He is first described as “old” in HTG. We are never told his exact age in any of these 12 books, but I tried to do the math to figure out how old he might be in HTG and after 16 years has passed in Phronsie. In HTG, we learn that Jasper has a married sister, Marian, who has three children, the oldest of whom is 10 years old. If Marian had her first child at age 19, she would be 29 during HTG. That would make her 16 years older than Jasper, who is 13 in HTG. If Mr. King married young, and Marian was born when he was 21, he would be 50 in HTG. By modern standards, 50 is not “old.” But in Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott, published six years before HTG, in 1875, Rose Campbell’s Great Aunt Peace is only 50 years old and, similar to MS’s description of Mr. King in HTG, Aunt Peace is also labeled as “old,” and both are described as having white hair. However, unlike Aunt Peace, Mr. King is never presented as having wrinkles, stooped posture, or any kind of frailty in either HTG or any of the other books in this series. On the contrary, he is described as tall, erect in his posture, broad shouldered and handsome. He moves around with ease, and he feels no strain bending over to hoist Phronsie or his other grandchildren off the ground and into his arms. He is also shown as having no problem with Phronsie’s weight on his knees either when she is four years old when he is 50, eight years old when he is 54, 13 years old when he is 59, or 20 years old when he is 66. Regarding the latter situation, in Phronsie, 16 years have passed since we first encountered “old” Mr. King in HTG, which would make him 66 years old, at the very least. In that era, or even 100 years later, that age would actually be considered “old.” Yet even at 66, MS portrays him as being as strong and limber as he is at age 50. Which means the entire concept of “old” to MS in these stories is rather arbitrary.
Another carelessly handled issue regarding Mr. King in this series is his marital status. He is obviously single throughout this series, and it is historically implied that he is a widower, since divorce was extremely uncommon in that time period. However, the only place in the entire series where his dead wife is alluded to is in Phronsie, but only once, in passing, and we are not told when or how she died. Throughout this series, Mr. King never shows any interest whatsoever in remarrying. In fact, when the possibility is mentioned to him by someone in Midway, he reacts in horror to the very idea.
I was curious throughout this series about the source of Mr. King’s wealth, but MS never has a word to say about that. However, during Phronsie’s discussion with Mr. King in Grown about sharing some of the $3 million, which she inherited from Mr. King’s cousin-in-law, Eunice Chatterton, at the end of Midway, with Eunice’s niece Charlotte Chatterton, it is the one and only time in this series that we learn anything at all about how rich Mr. King actually is. He thinks to himself that even if Phronsie opts to give away all of her inheritance to Charlotte, he has more than enough money to make up the loss of it to her. This gives the impression that Mr. King’s wealth is in the vast range of tens of millions of dollars. Which means that MS probably meant to portray him as the equivalent of a modern-day billionaire. During Grown, we also finally, definitively, learn that Mr. King—who is never portrayed as going to the office in any of these novels—has never worked a day in his life but, rather, has been a snooty gentleman of leisure. As a result, he is shocked that Jasper, in Grown, has chosen to pursue a career in the publishing industry. Mr. King’s scornful attitude toward having his son working “in trade” is also quite reminiscent of the haughty mind-set of the British nobility up through the late 19th century era of these novels.
Because the Pepper novels are children’s books, they do not involve edge-of-the-seat action, which is one of the things I personally like about them. They are products of a much slower-paced era, and it is relaxing to experience that approach to children's fiction while being warmly enfolded into the loving Pepper and King families. All the Pepper books are strictly G-rated, and the values that Mamsie teaches the Pepper children are very useful ones for any child to be exposed to, including: loyalty, honesty, civility, kindness, consideration, keeping commitments, accepting difficult circumstances without complaint and forging through them.
This collection offers an excellent opportunity to purchase the entire series of 12 Pepper books in one convenient volume. This Kindle book is quite readable, with good formatting and few editing errors.
Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of successful, American children's author, Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1844 and died in 1924, eight years after writing the last Pepper book. 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's Pepper series, starting in 1881. These books were written during the 35-year period of 1881-1916.
This Kindle book is organized with this each of the 12 Pepper books placed in the order of its publication date:
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881)
Five Little Peppers Midway (1890)
Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892)
Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper (1897)
Five Little Peppers: The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899)
Five Little Peppers: The Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900)
Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902)
Five Little Peppers at School (1903)
Five Little Peppers and Their Friends (1904)
Five Little Peppers: Ben Pepper (1905)
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907)
Five Little Peppers: Our Davie Pepper (1916)
That is certainly a valid choice. Personally, however, when I recently read this entire collection, I found it most logical to read them in chronological order, by the date within the stories themselves. This is a list of the Pepper books, chronologically:
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) (“HTG”)
Five Little Peppers: The Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900) (“Joel”)
Five Little Peppers: Our Davie Pepper (1916) (“Davie”)
Five Little Peppers: The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899) (“Stories”)
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907) (“LBH”)
Five Little Peppers Midway (1890) (“Midway”) (4 years after HTG)
Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902) (“Abroad”)
Five Little Peppers At School (1903) (“School”)
Five Little Peppers and Their Friends (1904) (“Friends”)
Five Little Peppers: Ben Pepper (1905) (“Ben”)
Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892) (“Grown”) (9 years after HTG)
Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper (1897) (“Phronsie”) (16 years after HTG)
HTG, Midway, Grown, and Phronsie were written as contemporary novels between 1881-1897 and, naturally enough, they have a 19th century sensibility, which MS maintained in the later books, even though they were completed a generation later, early in the 20th century, which era experienced rapid advances in technology and transportation. Since the events of the first book occur in 1881, the date of its publication, and 16 years pass within the Pepper world between that book and Phronsie, which is the final entry, chronologically, in this series, this means that the year of that book’s publication, 1897, coincidentally, is also the same year it would be in the Pepper story world.
The social attitudes on display in these novels reflect the era of their publication, sometimes in good ways, but also in unfortunate ways—in particular for the latter, the attitudes toward African-Americans and women. Some of that historically accurate information can be quite jarring to modern readers. This is also an era before modern medicine, and the treatments for illness and injury described in these novels are quite backward according to 21st century standards. Clothing, including shoes, is handmade, rather than off-the-rack. There is no electricity, and houses in this story are lit at night by candles. There are no phones, only postal letters, hand-carried messages, and telegrams. There are no automobiles, only horseback riding, horse-drawn carts and carriages and, when the characters travel outside their local township, they take a train. Transportation in the city also includes trolleys.
Margaret Sidney originally had no plans to write more Pepper books after Phronsie was published. She states this firmly in her introduction to that book. However, 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 School and Friends occur around the same time as the events in Midway. The events in Abroad occur right after Midway. The events in Ben occur after Abroad. The events in Joel and Davie occur during the same time period as the first part of HTG, when Joel and Davie are nine and seven years old, respectively. LBH and Stories consist of short stories about the Peppers before they went to live with Jasper and Mr. King midway through HTG.
If you read all, or most, of the Pepper books, you will discover that MS did not take great care to maintain continuity in these novels. For example, she is frequently inconsistent about the ages of the Pepper children, in comparison to the amount of years she states has passed since HTG. Most frustrating to me personally is her muddled focus on city settings. In some books she implies that Mr. King’s mansion is in New York City, and in other books she implies that it is located in some other unnamed city.
Another quirk in MS’s writing is her description of Mr. King’s as “old” across the entire series. He is first described as “old” in HTG. We are never told his exact age in any of these 12 books, but I tried to do the math to figure out how old he might be in HTG and after 16 years has passed in Phronsie. In HTG, we learn that Jasper has a married sister, Marian, who has three children, the oldest of whom is 10 years old. If Marian had her first child at age 19, she would be 29 during HTG. That would make her 16 years older than Jasper, who is 13 in HTG. If Mr. King married young, and Marian was born when he was 21, he would be 50 in HTG. By modern standards, 50 is not “old.” But in Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott, published six years before HTG, in 1875, Rose Campbell’s Great Aunt Peace is only 50 years old and, similar to MS’s description of Mr. King in HTG, Aunt Peace is also labeled as “old,” and both are described as having white hair. However, unlike Aunt Peace, Mr. King is never presented as having wrinkles, stooped posture, or any kind of frailty in either HTG or any of the other books in this series. On the contrary, he is described as tall, erect in his posture, broad shouldered and handsome. He moves around with ease, and he feels no strain bending over to hoist Phronsie or his other grandchildren off the ground and into his arms. He is also shown as having no problem with Phronsie’s weight on his knees either when she is four years old when he is 50, eight years old when he is 54, 13 years old when he is 59, or 20 years old when he is 66. Regarding the latter situation, in Phronsie, 16 years have passed since we first encountered “old” Mr. King in HTG, which would make him 66 years old, at the very least. In that era, or even 100 years later, that age would actually be considered “old.” Yet even at 66, MS portrays him as being as strong and limber as he is at age 50. Which means the entire concept of “old” to MS in these stories is rather arbitrary.
Another carelessly handled issue regarding Mr. King in this series is his marital status. He is obviously single throughout this series, and it is historically implied that he is a widower, since divorce was extremely uncommon in that time period. However, the only place in the entire series where his dead wife is alluded to is in Phronsie, but only once, in passing, and we are not told when or how she died. Throughout this series, Mr. King never shows any interest whatsoever in remarrying. In fact, when the possibility is mentioned to him by someone in Midway, he reacts in horror to the very idea.
I was curious throughout this series about the source of Mr. King’s wealth, but MS never has a word to say about that. However, during Phronsie’s discussion with Mr. King in Grown about sharing some of the $3 million, which she inherited from Mr. King’s cousin-in-law, Eunice Chatterton, at the end of Midway, with Eunice’s niece Charlotte Chatterton, it is the one and only time in this series that we learn anything at all about how rich Mr. King actually is. He thinks to himself that even if Phronsie opts to give away all of her inheritance to Charlotte, he has more than enough money to make up the loss of it to her. This gives the impression that Mr. King’s wealth is in the vast range of tens of millions of dollars. Which means that MS probably meant to portray him as the equivalent of a modern-day billionaire. During Grown, we also finally, definitively, learn that Mr. King—who is never portrayed as going to the office in any of these novels—has never worked a day in his life but, rather, has been a snooty gentleman of leisure. As a result, he is shocked that Jasper, in Grown, has chosen to pursue a career in the publishing industry. Mr. King’s scornful attitude toward having his son working “in trade” is also quite reminiscent of the haughty mind-set of the British nobility up through the late 19th century era of these novels.
Because the Pepper novels are children’s books, they do not involve edge-of-the-seat action, which is one of the things I personally like about them. They are products of a much slower-paced era, and it is relaxing to experience that approach to children's fiction while being warmly enfolded into the loving Pepper and King families. All the Pepper books are strictly G-rated, and the values that Mamsie teaches the Pepper children are very useful ones for any child to be exposed to, including: loyalty, honesty, civility, kindness, consideration, keeping commitments, accepting difficult circumstances without complaint and forging through them.
August 19, 2019
Revisiting these books from my childhood. Channeling my eight year old self.
Coming back in to say that eventually, after reading through about six of the books in this collection, I got to the point where enough was enough already! Um, even "too much."
As much as I do like these books they become cloying if you read them all. I was pretty sick of Polly by the time I finally stopped reading.
The books are also obviously dated so I wouldn't recommend them to kids today. Having said that, they also have really good values built into the stories...values I've lived by.
Coming back in to say that eventually, after reading through about six of the books in this collection, I got to the point where enough was enough already! Um, even "too much."
As much as I do like these books they become cloying if you read them all. I was pretty sick of Polly by the time I finally stopped reading.
The books are also obviously dated so I wouldn't recommend them to kids today. Having said that, they also have really good values built into the stories...values I've lived by.
November 22, 2021
Five Little Peppers
I read this beloved story as a child & it always stayed with me ever since !!!!!! I had never read all 12 books 📚 & it was a great joy to read all 12 !!!! Awesome stride off a very poor family in money 💰 but very RICH in LOVE for family & neighbors !!! They made do with what they had !!! The sweat but firm Mother who led by example & had very polite children who always obeyed all their Mamies which they called their Mom !! Those children could come up with so many games & stories !!! Mommy worked very hard doing others sewing
I read this beloved story as a child & it always stayed with me ever since !!!!!! I had never read all 12 books 📚 & it was a great joy to read all 12 !!!! Awesome stride off a very poor family in money 💰 but very RICH in LOVE for family & neighbors !!! They made do with what they had !!! The sweat but firm Mother who led by example & had very polite children who always obeyed all their Mamies which they called their Mom !! Those children could come up with so many games & stories !!! Mommy worked very hard doing others sewing
August 1, 2015
Great children's books
If you or your children are fans of the Little House on the Prairie books then try these. Written in the 1880's to 1916 what it was like going from poor to having money and living in the city. I read them as a kid and wanted to read them all again (plus ones I didn't have). Book needs editing and books are not in order. Just make sure you read the 'All Grown Up' book last. Can't beat the price.
If you or your children are fans of the Little House on the Prairie books then try these. Written in the 1880's to 1916 what it was like going from poor to having money and living in the city. I read them as a kid and wanted to read them all again (plus ones I didn't have). Book needs editing and books are not in order. Just make sure you read the 'All Grown Up' book last. Can't beat the price.
July 12, 2025
I was only interested in reading the first four (published) books in this series. After the first, I admit I struggled to finish the other three. There is just so much dialogue that it makes things hard to follow, and by the third book the fawning over Polly Pepper is annoying. I raced through the fourth book in order to get it done. This is not a book that I think will translate well for kids nowadays, unless it's a particularly sophisticated reader or a reader who enjoys the sentimental Victorian style.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew--3/5
Five Little Peppers Midway--2/5 for the beginning, 3/5 for the ending."
Five Little Peppers All Grown Up-- 4/5
Phronsie Pepper--2/5
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew--3/5
Five Little Peppers Midway--2/5 for the beginning, 3/5 for the ending."
Five Little Peppers All Grown Up-- 4/5
Phronsie Pepper--2/5
January 27, 2018
This is another one that I enjoyed more when I was much younger.
October 22, 2018
Need to be honest here, I just read the first book not all twelve included in this collection. “The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew” was a childhood favorite of mine.
October 23, 2019
These were some of my favorite books as a child. Pure nostalgia.
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May 27, 2020I had not read this series growing up and I thought I could rectify that....nope. Someone called them "cloying"--that's right on the money.
July 9, 2020
A childhood gem that spoke to me of earlier times ... even more so now. Fun to reread just for a distraction and escape.
April 27, 2016
I first read this book decades ago when I was a little girl. It was old-fashioned then, but I loved the stories about the five close-knit children and their Mother. I went on to read all of the books I could find in the library. Now the entire series is available for e-book in an inexpensive combined volume, so those of us who love these sweet stories can enjoy revisiting them any time we want. Though I do kind of miss holding them in my hands, the ones I read didn't have many illustrations, I don't miss pictures at all. And it's nice to be able to have all the volumes handy.
I'll not try to recap the books, as that information is available elsewhere. I did want to talk about this e-book. Whenever you find a classic book sold this cheaply you're taking the chance that it's an inferior text. Happily, I've not noticed any transpositions of words, (when for then, etc.), nor do any words, lines or pages seem to be missing. There's a full Table of Contents, listing each book with chapters, and clicking anywhere within the TOC takes you there, so it's easy to navigate the books. The one problem I do note is that some paragraphs are run together and other times they are broken up incorrectly. I don't find this makes it hard to read, though. (Further Note: "At School" has a numeral like 1 or 5, popping up fairly often, almost as if it's a subscript. Annoying but not fatal to the reading. One book has a note that part of the page was damaged so the words are reconstructed. Phronsie is the most troublesome - "BOOKS" is written "TJooks", and other problems that sometimes require the reader to figure out what is meant.)
The chronological reading order for the books is:
How they Grew
Midway
Abroad
And their Friends
Grown Up
Phronsie
Little Brown House, Joel and Davie take place during the time of the first book; At School and Ben are set after the children move but before Abroad, making them contemporary to Midway.
I'll not try to recap the books, as that information is available elsewhere. I did want to talk about this e-book. Whenever you find a classic book sold this cheaply you're taking the chance that it's an inferior text. Happily, I've not noticed any transpositions of words, (when for then, etc.), nor do any words, lines or pages seem to be missing. There's a full Table of Contents, listing each book with chapters, and clicking anywhere within the TOC takes you there, so it's easy to navigate the books. The one problem I do note is that some paragraphs are run together and other times they are broken up incorrectly. I don't find this makes it hard to read, though. (Further Note: "At School" has a numeral like 1 or 5, popping up fairly often, almost as if it's a subscript. Annoying but not fatal to the reading. One book has a note that part of the page was damaged so the words are reconstructed. Phronsie is the most troublesome - "BOOKS" is written "TJooks", and other problems that sometimes require the reader to figure out what is meant.)
The chronological reading order for the books is:
How they Grew
Midway
Abroad
And their Friends
Grown Up
Phronsie
Little Brown House, Joel and Davie take place during the time of the first book; At School and Ben are set after the children move but before Abroad, making them contemporary to Midway.
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