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Amelia Bedelia (book)
Amelia Bedelia is the first book in the Amelia Bedelia children's picture book series about a housekeeper who takes her instructions literally. It was written by Peggy Parish and published in 1963. Holt Rinehart and Winston adapted this and several other books in the series for its I Can Read! line of beginning books. Over 35 million copies of books in the series have been sold. A 50th anniversary edition was published in 2013 which includes author's notes and archive photos. The first two chapter books in the series written by Peggy's nephew, Herman Parish, were published to coincide with the anniversary, focusing on the young Amelia Bedelia.
The idea for the book came from Peggy's third-grade students at the Dalton School in Manhattan who tended to confuse vocabulary, often with comic results. A housekeeper at her grandparents' home, where she often played as a child, was likely the inspiration for one as the protagonist.
==Synopsis==
Amelia Bedelia, a childish but dim-witted woman, is hired as a maid for the wealthy Rogers family. Despite meaning well, she can't seem to do anything right because she does not understand the vernacular used by them. Mrs. Rogers gives her a list of chores to complete while they go out for the day. After choosing to make a lemon meringue pie to be nice, she proceeds to take all the chores literally: she "dresses the chicken" in tiny clothes, "drawing the drapes" on a piece of paper, dusts (rather than undusts) the furniture, and "puts the lights out" by hanging them on the clothesline.
When the Rogers return home, Mrs. Rogers is bewildered that none of the chores are done. On the verge of firing Amelia, she has a bite of her pie shoved in her mouth, and finds it so delicious she forgives her and decides to keep her—but vows to write more explicit instructions in the future.〔http://www.shelfari.com/books/129715/Amelia-Bedelia〕
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