Before Amelia Bedelia and the Stupids there were the Peterkins. The Peterkin Papers collects all of Lucretia Hale’s beloved tales of a thoroughly silly family.
The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: they sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they’ve forgotten to unhitch the horse, they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way, they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the Lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkins out of their latest scrape.
A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Peterkin Papers restore our astonishment at the ordinary, finding a rich vein of humor and happy surprise in the mere fact of our surviving the trivialities and tribulations of family life.
- ISBN10 1590172124
- ISBN13 9781590172124
- Publish Date 17 October 2006 (first published 1 January 1963)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 August 2022
- Publish Country US
- Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Imprint NYRB Children's
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781590172124