![]() ![]() ![]() On the verge of firing Amelia, she has a bite of Amelia's pie shoved in her mouth, and finds it so delicious she forgives Amelia and decides to keep her-but vows to write more explicit instructions in the future. Rogers is bewildered that none of the chores are done. After choosing to make a lemon meringue pie to be nice, Amelia proceeds to take all the chores literally: she "dresses the chicken" in tiny clothes, "drawing the drapes" on a piece of notebook paper, dusts (rather than undusts) the furniture, and "puts out the lights" by hanging them on the clothesline. ![]() Rogers gives her a list of chores to complete while the family goes out for the day. Despite meaning well, Amelia cannot seem to do anything right because she does not understand the vernacular used by her employers. SynopsisĪmelia Bedelia is hired as a maid for the wealthy Rogers family. A housekeeper at her grandparents' home, where Peggy often played as a child, was likely the inspiration for a housekeeper as the protagonist. 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. ![]()
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