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Amelia Bedelia
Children's fiction
Amelia Bedelia
Book 1 of the Amelia Bedelia series
63 pages · First published 1963
Amelia Bedelia begins work as a housekeeper and follows every instruction on her employer’s list with perfect literalness. She changes the towels by cutting them, dusts the furniture by applying dust, and misunderstands one ordinary expression after another. The resulting household chaos might cost her the job if her excellent baking did not soften everyone’s reaction. Peggy Parish’s classic early reader, illustrated by Fritz Siebel, turns idioms into slapstick comedy while giving beginning readers the pleasure of understanding language that the cheerful heroine does not.
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Comic household mishaps caused by literal misunderstandings; employers become angry and consider firing the housekeeper; no mature content.
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Second-Pour Merlot
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