Did you ever know a family that every one envied because they had such good times together? This is the famous story of such a family and the happiness it shared even though there was very little money and a great many problems.
Mrs. Pepper—Mamsie—and her five children lived in a plain little brown house where she struggled to feed and clothe her lively brood. The family had little in the way of luxury and hardly any of the things that many of us today take for granted. Even when it came to baking a birthday cake, they had to think twice before they scraped up enough money to put in raisins!
But they had such fun and good times together and loved one another so dearly that when a very rich little boy discovered the warmth and happiness that flooded the little brown house he felt himself lucky to be let in. And as it turned out, his coming brought luck to the Five Little Peppers too.
This heart-warming story has been made even more appealing by the beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations which have been prepared exclusively for the Illustrated Junior Library.
—from the dust jacket
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew was originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a children's magazine. The publisher of the magazine, Daniel Lothrop, loved the Pepper stories so much that he published a hard-cover edition of the story—and married the author in 1881. In 1883 the couple moved to historic Concord, Massachusetts, and resided in a house called the Wayside, which had previously been home to Nathaniel Hawthorne and also to Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women.
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