Five Little Peppers and how they grewTimes are tough for the Pepper family since their father died. Life for a widow with five children is never easy, especially when there isn't enough money to send them to school, let alone have a Christmas. But no matter what comes their way the little brown house where the Pepper family live is always filled with love, hope and laughter. Will their luck finally turn after a near tragedy? Can good fortune finally be on the way?

fine-line drawings of creatures from the natural world

including Sylvia Long's Mother Goose and An Egg Is Quiet

It makes a great gift when paired with one of the many fantastic kid’s gardening books out there

Virgin Islands

and a remarkable tale -- "Little Wildrose" -- from Rumania tells how a beautiful child was reared in an eagle's nest

The package is shrink-wrapped so that the elegant clothbound audiobook can takes its place on the poetry shelf

Pub Date: August 21

and learn about the natural world

A finely illustrated biography equally suited to research or pleasure reading

above the orchards

Even though it was a pretend cookbook

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