Five Little Peppers Iris Cushing Chagall’s Moon movingly creates a

Chagall’s Moon movingly creates a world of love and loss

His writing appears in the anthologies The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) and Gathering Ground (2006)

Dawn Manning

Eight years in the making

Five Little Peppers Iris Cushing Chagall’s Moon movingly creates aWorking hard to survive in a harsh world, the Peppers still find joy and love in their little brown house until a chance encounter with a wealthy family changes their fortunes forever. When it was first published in 1881, Margaret Sidneys Five Little Peppers was an immediate bestseller. Its account of the five Pepper siblings adventures in the American Gilded Age attracted an army of young readers who clamoured for sequels well into the twentieth