# Amelia Bedelia

**Author:** Peggy Parish
**Lexile:** 380L
**Grade range:** Grades 1–3
**Age range:** 6–9
**First published:** 1963
**Page count:** 64
**Genre:** Early Reader
**ISBN-13:** `9780060200961`
**ISBN-10:** `0060200960`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/amelia-bedelia
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A literal-minded housekeeper takes every idiom at face value — when told to "dust the furniture," she sprinkles dusting powder on it. Parish's long-running series introduces the concept of figurative language to early readers and appears on countless first and second-grade reading lists.

## Themes

- figurative language
- humor
- good intentions

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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