Raising Sweetness

The story of a man with a broken heart who adopts all of the children in an orphanage to save them from the mean lady who ran it. They're living very happily except for two things...there is an emptiness without a mother, and none of them know how to read. They realize the latter when a letter comes in the mail and no one knows what it says. The story shows their struggle to learn to read and in the end how one of the children helps to find them all a mother.
The overall story was entertaining, funny, and sweet but it seemed overly silly and unrealistic to me.

Ever since the kindhearted sheriff done adopted little Sweetness (and all them other precious orphans), things has been darn near perfect out in Possum Trot. Only problem is, the meals is just a mite too interestin' (such as pickle and banana pie) and the housekeepin' is downright peculiar. Ever so often, them young 'uns start to wishin' their sweet pa would go and get hisself married. When a mysterious letter arrives one day, Sweetness figures it might be the solution to all their problems--if only they can learn how to read it! But don't worry. She's done it afore; she can do it again. Leave it to Sweetness to save the day!

This book is about a single man adopting eight children. He tries raising so many children because he thought that their caretaker before was not fitted to take care of them. He can't cook or clean, but all of his children still love and adore their father. While taking care of them, he receives a letter, but he can't read it. Sweetness, one of the kids, takes it upon herself to go to school and learn how to read in order to descript the letter. She soon find outs that it's from a woman that her father loved.

This is a cute book about a man who adopted eight orphans and took to raising them. He had lost his love and got a letter in the mail that he couldn't read; one of the children went to learn to read and figured out the message. She sent a letter back to the writer of the mysterous letter without the man knowing. And in walks his love after all these years, the story shows true companionship and is a good read for children of any age.

This book is precious in that a man with eight adopted children receives a letter and becomes concious that none of them know how to read or write correctly. So, the youngest daughter, Sweetness, starts going to school and sitting outside hiding every day to listen to the teacher's lessons and brings home her new knowledge to help the entire family read. She is able to respond to the letter well enough to get her father's love back and they get married and his new wife, Mrs. Lucy, teaches them all how to read and write.

Well dog bite my buttons!"  Even more over-the-top than the first.  Most of the recipes are awful crazy, but peanut butter with spaghetti, assuming we mean spaghetti noodles, is on its way to being Pad Thai... nummy....  The illustrations aren't my favorite, but they are perfect for the story.  "

Raising Sweetness is a book that has to be read very slowly. I think it would be hard for younger children to figure out because the grammer in it is not right and the narrator uses odd words. The story is about a man who adopted many orphans. He is single and every once and a while the children wish he would get married. Eventually he finds the right wife for him.