Mrs Pepperpot Learns to Swim


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Just as Mrs Pepperpot jumps into the pool, she shrinks! What a disaster, now the water seems like an ocean to the tiny Mrs P. Thank goodness for the friendly frog who pops up to save the day.




Mrs Pepperpot Stories


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Life isn't always easy for Mrs Pepperpot. She never knows quite what size she's going to be from one moment to the next, and shrinking to the size of a pepperpot can have some unfortunate, hilarious and hair-raising results! Mrs Pepperpot, that tiny, feis




The Adventures of Mrs Pepperpot


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Mrs Pepperpot has a problem - a huge problem - she shrinks! And when she shrinks she finds herself in all sorts of trouble... Mrs Pepperpot is determined to practise her swimming, so when all the village children go for a picnic in the mountains she goes to the pool in the wood. But disaster strikes - just as Mrs Pepperpot jumps into the water she shrinks! Now the pool seems as big as an ocean. Luckily there's a friendly frog nearby to rescue her and give her swimming lessons. When Mrs Pepperpot agrees to mind baby Roger from next door, she doesn't know that she's going to shrink. How can she look after him when she's only as tall as a pepperpot? Baby Roger thinks she's a doll and jiggles and joggles her and throws her high in the air. Will Mrs Pepperpot be able to keep the baby out of mischief until his mother comes to get him. . . ?




The Conduct of Life


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Mrs Pepperpot Minds the Baby


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When Mrs. Pepperpot shrinks as she is babysitting and becomes much smaller than the baby, she has to figure out how to maintain order and keep the baby and herself safe.




Jack and Jill


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From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post–Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together—so much so that Janey is nicknamed “Jill” to fit the old children’s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up—exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.




Travels in West Africa


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As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.




Mrs Pepperpot and the Treasure


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Mrs Pepperpot has an adventure with her cat who shows her hidden treasure which turn out to be a litter of kittens.




Mrs Pepperpot to the Rescue


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Mrs Pepperpot is as busy as always, and mindful that she is likely to shrink to the size of a Pepperpot at any time. She doesn't know when or where it might happen but she can be sure she'll have an incredible adventure. A compilation of twelve stories including: "Mrs. Pepperpot to the Rescue"; "Mrs. Pepperpot on the Warpath"; "The Nature Lesson"; "The Shoemaker's Doll"; "Mrs. Pepperpot is Taken for a Witch"; "The Little Mouse Who Was Very Clever"; "Mrs Pepperpot's Birthday"; "The Dancing Bees"; "How the King Learned to Eat Porridge"; "Mrs. Pepperpot Turns Fortune Teller"; "The Fairy-Tale Boy"; nad, "The Ski-Race."




Mrs Pepperpot at the Bazaar


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Mrs Pepperpot shrinks and makes herself a prize at a bazaar.