Can I read Amelia Bedelia on EtoBox?

Amelia Bedelia by Parish, Peggy;Siebel, Fritz, ill is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Amelia Bedelia about?

The stories follow Amelia Bedelia, a maid who repeatedly misunderstands various commands of her employer by taking figures of speech and various terminology literally, causing her to perform incorrect actions with a comical effect. For example, she interprets a request to "put the lights out" as a request to physically put the light bulbs outside. Other examples include “tag a player out” when playing baseball resulting in her placing an actual tag on the player then picking up the person to ask how far out they should be. Part of the reason given for this behavior is that she comes from a family who takes everything literally: their method of ridding their house of dust is to "un-dust" rather than dust the furniture. However, she almost always manages to win everyone over at the end with her excellent cooking, particularly of desserts. 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 "un-dust the furniture" and "put the wet towels in the laundry and replace them with clean dry ones", as opposed to simply "change the towels".

Who reads Amelia Bedelia?

Author

Parish, Peggy;Siebel, Fritz, ill

Publisher

Scholastic Books

Published

1963

Language

EN

Category

children's

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Humour

Rating

4.15 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14