Jan. 29, 2013 — -- Possibly the most successful house maid in the world, the children's book character Amelia Bedelia, turns 50 today, with a new line of books to mark the milestone. The late ...

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 well- ...

Amelia Bedelia first paved her way onto bookshelves in 1963, and she's still entertaining children of all ages as she tries to do everything right, yet nothing ever goes according to plan, ...

The first Amelia Bedelia book was published in 1963, the same year as Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”; the series’ interest in wordplay, literalism, and figurative language is of a ...