Peterkin Papers (version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Children's Fiction

Authors: Lucretia P. Hale In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

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Dedication & Preface
The Lady Who Put Salt In Her Coffee
About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano
The Peterkins Try To Become Wise
Mrs. Peterkin Wishes To Go To Drive
The Peterkins At Home
Why The Peterkins Had A Late Dinner
The Peterkins' Summer Journey
The Peterkins Snowed-Up
The Peterkins Decide To Keep A Cow
The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree
Mrs. Peterkins Tea-Party
The Peterkins Too Late For The Exhibition
The Peterkins Celebrate The "Fourth"
The Peterkins' Picnic
The Peterkins' Charades
The Peterkins Are Obliged To Move
The Peterkins Decide To Learn The Languages
Modern Improvements At The Peterkins'
Agamemnon's Career
The Educational Breakfast
The Peterkins At The "Carnival of Authors" In Boston
The Peterkins At The Farm

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy—but not common sense. Many chapters show the family trying to solve some problem in a roundabout way, failing, and eventually being rescued by "the wise old lady from Philadelphia," who cuts the Gordian knot with an effective but prosaic solution. The charm of the story is not in the plot, but in the telling, building up layers of complication, and the affectionate fun poked at the not-quite-cartoonish characters. The "wise old lady's" solution is usually obvious to the reader, even the young listener, from the start. (summary from Wikipedia)