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Amelia Bedelia is the protagonist and title character of a series of American children's books written by Peggy Parish until her death in 1988, and by her nephew, Herman Parish, beginning in 1995. They have been illustrated by Wallace Tripp, Fritz Siebel, and the two current illustrators, Lynn Sweat and Lynne Avril. In 1992 HarperCollins republished the three original ones: ''Amelia Bedelia,'' ''Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower,'' and ''Thank You, Amelia Bedelia'' with illustrations by Barbara Siebel Thomas, daughter of the original illustrator Fritz Siebel. In 2009, Herman Parish began writing books about Amelia Bedelia's own childhood experiences, starting with ''Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School.'' There is a statue of Amelia Bedelia in Manning, South Carolina, the hometown of Peggy Parish. Many of the books are published as part of the I Can Read series, levels 1 and 2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.icanread.com/amelia-bedelia/index.html )〕 ==Premise== The stories involve Amelia repeatedly misunderstanding various commands of her employer by always taking figures of speech and various terminology literally, causing her to perform incorrect actions with a comical effect. Part of her insight into literalism is that she comes from a family who takes everything literally: their method of ridding their house of dust is to "undust the furniture." However, she almost always manages to win everyone over at the end by baking a delicious pie or cake. Much of her employment is as a maid for a wealthy couple known as the Rogers, who are astute enough to realize her literalism and write their requests as "undust the furniture" and "put the wet towels in the laundry and replace them with clean dry ones," as opposed to simply "change the towels." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amelia Bedelia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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