It’s been a half-century since Amelia Bedelia first bumbled into the Rogers’ household and dusted the furniture with dusting powder, put the lights out on the clothesline, and dressed the chicken in ...

For more than 50 years, everyone's favorite silly housekeeper Amelia Bedelia has been entertaining children, and, okay, yes, grown-ups, too. Since author and teacher Peggy Parish dreamed up the ...

Amelia Bedelia was cleaning the lab. Dr. Strauss had written a list of things for her to do so that she wouldn’t forget. “Dust the microscopes,” she read. She looked everywhere, but the lab was very ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Amelia Bedelia could hardly hold down a housekeeping job, but that didn’t stop her from running for mayor. Anybody with small kids or grandchildren is familiar with Amelia Bedelia — the ...

After a screening of her new short film, Clown Service, at Saturday’s Vulture Festival, Tig Notaro discussed some of her comedic influences, including Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, Paula Poundstone, and ...

Twenty years ago, when my kids were little, and we went on long drives, my wife and I would play an audiotape of the Amelia Bedelia stories, by Peggy Parish, to keep them occupied. Amelia Bedelia is a ...

Amelia Bedelia fans will welcome her bumbling leap (in a good way) into a new chapter-book series. Although the character turns 50 in 2013, this book follows the literal-minded heroine’s exploits and ...

And for generations, children have simply adored the comical character of Amelia Bedelia, the literary-minded housekeeper, who some people think is kind of wacky. She has a way with words, to put it ...