This author felt beginning readers needed humor, so she created a literal minded housekeeper. When this character was told to call the roll, she shouts, "Hey, roll!" When asked to "draw the drapes", she sketches them. To "put the lights out" she takes them outside, and to "plant the bulbs" she puts light bulbs in the flowerpots. There is a statue of this character outside the library in Manning, South Carolina, the town where author Peggy Parish was born in 1927.
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