![]() ![]() The fictional setting is more modern than Alcott's or Nesbit's, although not clearly contemporary with Birdsall's writing. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers. The National Book Award citation compares the novel to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and E. The novel was inspired by the kind of stories the author read when growing up, The remaining books in the series are The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, The Penderwicks in Spring, and The Penderwicks at Last. Both The Penderwicks and its sequel The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Knopf, April 2008) were New York Times Best Sellers. This was Birdsall's first book published and it inaugurated the Penderwicks series, whose fifth and final volume was published in 2018. ![]() ![]() The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf in 2005. ![]()
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