Little Prudy

Meet Prudy Parlin, a red-haired force of chaos living in Portland, Maine, who has never met a situation she couldn't make worse. At just six years old, Prudy possesses the remarkable talent of starting seventeen projects and finishing none: her patchwork becomes a knotted catastrophe, her sewing needle vanishes into parts unknown, and her mother's patient instructions dissolve entirely the moment the baby or the family dog wanders into view. Alongside her older sister Susy, who approaches childhood with considerably more caution, Prudy navigates the timeless battles between curiosity and consequence, between what she's told to do and what her irrepressible spirit demands instead. The summers bring escape to Willowbrook and the indulgent presence of grandmother, where new mischief inevitably blooms. Written in 1864, Sophie May captures the electricity of a young mind that sees the world not as it is, but as an endless playground of possibility and trouble.