Parish, Peggy

Three children vacationing on Pirate Island discover a long-lost family "treasure.".

Blue Sky goes out to hunt for meat for his family and comes home with something quite unexpected.

When the Rogers' housekeeper interprets instructions literally, the confusion is humorous.

Missing garbage scraps, a red sweater found in the woods, and a trapped puppy lead three children, staying with their grandparents, to think someone is in need.

Amelia Bedelia shows her niece Effie Lou how to follow instructions to the letter as they dust the potato bugs and sew seeds.

Everything seems to go wrong the day a young Indian boy sets out to find a birthday present for his mother.

Little Indian goes on a hunting trip, where he has an encounter with a wild boar that surprises the whole village.

Illustrates twenty-six letters of the alphabet with alliterative phrases: "Mischievous masked minks messily mix malted milk.".

Directions very young readers can follow for making Christmas and Chanukah decorations for home and school from inexpensive household materials.

A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.