The Books
In order of publication, the Five Little Peppers books are as follows (publication dates follow in parentheses):
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) Project Gutenberg Gask Castle Press
- Five Little Peppers Midway (1890) Project Gutenberg
- Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892) Project Gutenberg
- Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper (1897)
- Five Little Peppers: The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899)
- Five Little Peppers: The Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900) Project Gutenberg
- Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902) Project Gutenberg
- Five Little Peppers At School (1903)
- Five Little Peppers and Their Friends (1904) Project Gutenberg
- Five Little Peppers: Ben Pepper (1905)
- Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907)
- Five Little Peppers: Our Davie Pepper (1916)
Margaret Sidney felt she had completed the books with the publication of the fourth book: "Phronsie Pepper", and stated as much in her introduction to the book. But letters from readers all over the world prompted her to continue writing about the Peppers, which she did for another nineteen years. All of the later books take place much before the third book in the original series. To read the six key books in chronological order, rather than by publication date, they would be read approximately in this sequence:
- "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"
- "Five Little Peppers Midway"
- "Five Little Peppers Abroad"
- "Five Little Peppers and Their Friends"
- "Five Little Peppers Grown Up"
- "Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper"
The other six books are "background" and are set about the time of the first three books listed above chronologically. Since they were written many years later, some situations in them are at variance with those same situations as described in the earlier written books.
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