Little Pear: The Story of a Little Chinese Boy

Definitely vintage... today's parents would not let their children have so much freedom. And the girls were much more in the background & more domestic, with no way for a child reader to know if that's representative of the time, the culture, or that family.

However, it's a fun read, still relevant and valuable, and most of all amusing, to modern families.
Surprisingly culturally friendly: Little Pear is first a bold, impulsive, loving & lovable little boy, second he is from a small Chinese village of about a century ago... and nothing strikes me as racist or stereotypical or derogatory at all. I also enjoyed the sequel and will copy this review there.

Borrowed both from open library.

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!

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

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.

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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Neuf histoires courtes reprenant les thématiques habituelles : cerf-volant, nouvel an, dragon,... autour d'un pet garçon qui ne fait que des bêtises, habitant le petit village de Shegu.