Books like Mrs. Pepperpot Stories

Do you know the stories about Mrs Pepperpot? The little old lady who shrinks to the size of a pepperpot at the most inconvenient moments and has lots of amazing adventures. I loved the Mrs Pepperpot books as a young girl and I have read them to both my sons. From an adult perspective I can see how beneficial these stories are to children as they have a strong theme of thinking of solutions to problems and difficulties.Mrs Pepperpot endlessly ends up in a pickle due to her shrinking to a tiny size. She finds interesting ways to clean her house, get her washing done and dry and make pancakes for supper. She makes a plan when her attempt to learn how to swim goes awry when she shrinks and she gets a frog in the pond to teach her breast stroke. She also manages to turn a kidnapping by a crow to her advantage and become the Queen of the crows.My favourite story is when Mrs Pepperpot promises three very posh and snooty ladies to make gingerbread for a local bazaar. She shrinks while the gingerbread is baking and it burns to a crisp. Mrs Pepperpot feels she must donate a prize and so she gets her young friend, Hannah, to dress her up as a mechanical doll and take her to the bazaar in a box as a prize. The three unpleasant ladies get a nasty shock when they make unkind comments about the funny old lady who had promised to send gingerbread.Mrs Pepperpot is also a lady with a very kind heart. She befriends needy children and animals and helps them out of unfortunate situations. She manages to deliver a Christmas present to Hannah in the middle of a snowstorm even though she inconveniently shrinks just as she is planning to leave home.If you haven’t read any of the Mrs Pepperpot stories I really recommend that you find a reason to do so. They are so much fun.