Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure!

Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying. Join him as he stows away to the fair in a wheelbarrow full of vegetables, nearly flies away on a kite, has a mishap with a firecracker, and is rescued from the river by a houseboat family.

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Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure! Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying!

Even though Frances Lattimore's book are very dated and I very much doubt that many children would love her books, most are out of print anyway, my collection is from scrounging around the internet and buying every reasonably used copy I could get.

She was my favorite as a child and I love her still, being the sentimental sort. ( )

A cute story about responsibility, but it suffers from the cultural stereotypes of the era in which it was written.