- Humorous stories, Juvenile fiction, Household employees, Amelia-Bedelia (Fictitious character)
A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
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Warm, comic, spare and intimate.
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- First published
- August 17, 2004
- Pages
- 63
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Scholastic
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780848000547
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“Oh, Amelia Bedelia, your first day of work, and I can't be here."”
Peggy Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Carolina. After graduation, she visited her brother in Kentucky, and was persuaded to try teaching. She began by teaching creative dancing to young children. Later she moved to Oklahoma where she taught both third grade and dance, and she produced community shows. She then moved to New York and got a job teaching dance to third-graders in a progressive experimental school called the Dalton School in Manhattan. At this time she also began writing. Her first published book, My Golden Book of Manners, was published in 1961, followed by Let's Be Indians (1962). She cre
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