To the thousands who have enjoyed reading FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW Polly Pepper is an old friend with a wonderful gift of storytelling. It is a gift that she shares generously with all the other little Peppers—especially on those rare days when trouble threatens the happiness that usually floods the Little Brown House. At such times, stories about the homely, everyday things become, under Polly's magic touch, thrilling adventures to hear, and soon restore the Five Little Peppers to their customary gaiety.

Best of all, perhaps, are the stories Polly tells after the Five Little Peppers have gone to live in the big Whitney home. In these, Polly can always recapture for Ben, Joel, Davie and Phronsie the charm of the days in the Little Brown House, for these are the stories of their good times together in the past—their adventure the day they took the big green wagon and drove to town to buy Phronsie red-topped-shoes—or perhaps the time they were snowbound with only a flag flying from the gable to show the neighbors where they were buried under the drifts.

From the little storyteller's vivid imagination flows a fascinating stream of stories that will delight young readers.

From the Grosset & Dunlap edition