Stone decided not to just give them the stories in book form and then add some new stories, but to create a whole original book with all new stories and its own unifying plot.įans ended up liking it so much that she was driven to create a four-book series, and after she thought the series was complete when the baby of the family, Phronsie (Sophronia), finally came into adulthood and got married, fans still clamoured for more. She had first introduced the Peppers in a series of stories published in the newspaper, and the readers liked them so much that they demanded a whole book about them. In 2009 I started going through the whole series as an adult, something I didn’t do as a preteen, having only read the first book and then not having finished the sequel. Probably in 1991, I first read the children’s classic Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, originally published in 1880 by Harriett Mulford Stone, under the pseudonym Margaret Sidney. WARNING: CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALL OF THE BOOKS!
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