In the fifth book in the New York Times-best-selling chapter book series about the childhood of America’s favourite housekeeper, Amelia Bedelia takes to the field, the yoga mat, and the track, with hilarious results. Includes a guide to the idioms used in the book and features black-and-white art throughout.In the fifth book in the New York Times-best-selling chapter book series about the childhood of America’s favourite housekeeper, Amelia Bedelia takes to the field, the yoga mat, and the track, with hilarious results. Includes a guide to the idioms used in the book and features black-and-white art throughout.

Annie lives with her elderly parents in a remote cottage. She is used to being alone. Every day she walks by the lonely marsh to school. Only in winter, when the wind howls in the trees, is Annie ever afraid. Her sister Willa is pregnant and Annie is overjoyed when she comes home to have her baby. Annie tells Willa the names of local plants and Willa tells Annie about the ghost, murdered by highwaymen, who is said to haunt the old forge nearby.

This brief 15-page illustrated full-colour children’s book is based on the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (S): “Guard yourselves against the fire (of hell) even if it is with half a date.” It goes over a story of a mother who divided her own date into 2 halves to give to her children. The Prophet (S) commented about her that ” Indeed Allah has assured Paradise for because of this (charity).”