Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: September 1, 1948
ISBN-13: 9780448060088
First sentence: The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of mid-day; and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday aspect, that as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently proper it should have.