Did you ever know a family that everyone envied because they had such good times together? This is the famous story of such a family and the happiness it shared even though there was very little money and a great many problems.

Mrs. Pepper—Mamsie—and her five children lived in a plain little brown house where she struggled to feed and clothe her lively brood. The family had little in the way of luxury and hardly any of the things that many of us today take for granted. Even when it came to baking a birthday cake, they had to think twice before they scraped up enough money to put in raisins!

But they had such fun and good times together and loved one another so dearly that when a very rich little boy discovered the warmth and happiness that flooded the little brown house he felt himself lucky to be let in. And as it turned out, his coming brought luck to the Five Little Peppers too.

From the dust jacket of the Illustrated Junior Library edition