Parish, Herman

Amelia Bedelia suggests that her Mom, who is feeling blue, go on a play date while Amelia Bedelia is doing the same, and then enlists her friends to help make chalk drawings on the house, sidewalk, and more to brighten Mom's day with her favorite things.

When Amelia Bedelia breaks a mirror on a Friday the thirteenth, her friends warn her that she is in for fourteen years of bad luck--however, Amelia learns how to turn her bad luck into good through friendship.

Amelia Bedelia and her classmates have fun on a class field trip nature hike, seeing all sorts of animals and even having a picnic.

The literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos at her local library when she stops by to help the librarian.

Literal-minded even as a child, Amelia Bedelia muddles through Valentine's Day with her heart on her sleeve, trying to make sense of strange greetings at school and home, and ever on the lookout for the arrows of Cupid.

From the time she is sent to pick up the guest conductor, Amelia Bedelia's normal confusion causes quite an uproar at the school concert.

When Amelia Bedelia babysits for the Hardy family, she becomes involved in some unexpected remodeling of their house.