Amelia Bedelia Hardcover – Picture Book, January 29, 2013

A book for all times and all ages. Innocent, fun and spot on. Amelia Badelia is as wonderful and quirky now as when I read her stories 55 years ago. A fun generational book that points out the riciulousness of the American vernacular - in a most charming children's book.

My granddaughter loves the story. She laughs about dressing the chicken.

Great lesson for kids - there are a million ways to be different and lovable.

This is such a wonderful book! I bought it for my sweet granddaughter and we have been enjoying it so much. Beautiful illustrations too! Very funny and clever.

Amelia Bedelia is one of the many well-known children's book character I had heard of but never read. My first encounter with her was reading one of the current boring books to my son's kindergarten class. This is what happen's when you forget to bring your own book for reader of the day. The upside? It made me curious about the original Amelia Bedelia and I found the fantastic 50th anniversary edition. This edition includes the original 1963 Peggy Parish story and Fritz Siebel illustrations along with seven pages of pictures and notes describing the story's creation and information about the author and illustrator. The physical book itself is lovely. A large 9x11 size with soft cream pages and crisply printed black ink illustration shaded with gray and highlighted with a medium green.If you aren't already familiar with Amelia, she is a literal minded maid who uses dusting powder to "dust" the furniture, a pen and paper to "draw" the drapes, and ribbon and lace to "trim" the fat on the steak. It's a vintage story so some things are old fashion and out of date. I had to explain "drawing" the drapes and "dressing" the chicken to my five year old. Mr Rogers, Amelia's employer, is smoking a pipe in the first picture and there are several pictures of Mrs. Rogers wearing a fox stole (you know the ones with a full fox head). Also in the end notes there is a picture of Peggy Parish's "Let's Be Indian" - cringe worthy.Really though, it's a funny story and my son belly laughs through most of it. It's a treat be able to buy a new copy of a vintage classic.

Love that I could purchase the same exact book I had as a child for my granddaughter!

My siblings and I are old guys and gals by now, but to this day we talk about Amelia Bedelia and her fish dipped in chocolate. We almost crave it in such a weird way! It's a charming story and worth adding to your collection.

We (me and my 4 year old) LOVE amelia bedelia. We made our own "dressed" chicken with foil overalls after reading. She laughed and laughed and laughed. Glad to know my favorites from when i was little are still a hit. it takes me back!