Peggy Parish

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* Margaret Cecile "Peggy" Parish (July 14, 1927 – November 19, 1988) was an American writer best known for the children's book series and fictional character Amelia Bedelia. Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina, to a struggling family, attended the University of South Carolina, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. * She worked as a teacher in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and New York. * She worked at the Dalton School in Manhattan for 15 years and wrote her first children's book when she was teaching third grade. * Amelia Bedelia, Parish's most well-known character, is extremely literal and interprets idioms and other verbal terms figuratively, causing a lot of commotion in each story. This theory emerged in conversations between Parish and Greenwillow Books founder Susan Hirschman about the author's observations of her third grade students. Amelia works as a household cook and occasional servant, which is similar to Parish's work in her household when she was growing up. She has no recipes, but her cakes and cookies and meals are always delectable, thanks to her instinctively mixing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. * Despite the fact that her employers are unlikely to fire her, she is so talented at interpreting their instructions: prune the shrubs, scale and ice the fish, file the letters, run over the tablecloth with an iron, serve coffee with porridge, heat a can of soup, and so on. "For Peggy Parish, the authentic Amelia," the author's word play, as well as Amelia Bedelia's inherent goodness and childlike simplicity, appeal to children who are beginning to see and appreciate more than one meaning in a word or a phrase. Herman, a recalling Parish's technique when working on Too Many Rabbits, outlined how she wrote out her index cards, "and she'd play solitaire, and then pick them up, retype them, and rewrite everything several times." "She was the way she worked, and it gave me a great deal of respect for her approach."

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