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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Littles

1 - The Littles (1967)
2 - The Littles Take a Trip (1968)
3 - The Littles Have a Wedding (1971)
4 - The Littles Give a Party (1972)
5 - The Littles and the Great Halloween Scare (1975)
6 - The Littles and the Trash Tinies (Dec-1982)
7 - The Littles Go Exploring (1978)
8 - The Littles To the Rescue (1968)
9 - The Littles and Their Friends (Jan-1981)
10 - The Littles and the Big Storm (1979)
11 - The Littles Go to School (Jan-1994)
The Littles and the Perfect Christmas (Dec-2004)

The Littles (First Readers)

The Littles Do Their Homework ()
The Littles Give a Party (1972)
The Tom Little's Great Halloween Scare (Oct-1986)
The Littles and the Trash Things (Dec-1988)
The Littles and the Lost Children (Jan-1991)
The Littles and the Terrible Tiny Kid (Apr-1993)
The Littles and Their Amazing New Friend (Mar-1999)
The Littles Go Around the World (Dec-2000)
The Littles Make a Friend (Dec-2000)
The Littles and the Big Blizzard (Feb-2001)
The Littles Get Trapped (May-2001)
The Littles and the Secret Letter (Nov-2001)
The Littles Go On A Hike (Mar-2002)
The Littles and the Summer Storm (Jun-2002)
The Littles and the Scary Halloween (Sep-2002)
The Littles Have a Happy Valentine's Day (Jan-2003)
The Littles Get Lost (2003)
The Littles Have a Merry Christmas (Oct-2003)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • The Littles

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    The Littles - 1

    Meet the Littles, a family like any other but with a few tiny differences They live in the walls of the Bigg family house where they get everything they need. In return they make sure the Bigg house is always in good repair. When the Biggs go away...

  • The Littles To the Rescue

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    The Littles - 8

    How can such a little Little be so much trouble? "Get moving, Skunk!" yelled Mr. Speck. Cousin Dinky pounded his hand with his fist. "It's no use," he said. "This skunk will never catch them." But when Skunk finally made it to the end of the trail,...

  • The Littles Take a Trip

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    The Littles - 2

    Meet the Littles, a family like any other but with a few tiny differences! They live in the walls of the Bigg family house where they get everything they need. In return they make sure the Bigg house is always in good repair. Lucy and Tom Little a...

  • Mystery In The Night Woods

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    "There's just one other prisoner on the island at this time -- it's Weasel," said Chief Skunk. "My advice is to stay away from him. He's no good and never will be." "I'll talk to anyone I want to talk to," said Flying Squirrel. Weasel is after ...

  • The Littles Have a Wedding

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    The Littles - 3

    Meet the Littles, a family like any other but with a few tiny differences! They live in the walls of the Bigg family house where they get everything they need. In return they make sure the Bigg house is always in good repair. When Dinky comes home...

  • The Littles Give a Party

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    The Littles - 4
    The Littles (First Readers)

    "Everybody stays home on the Fourth of July," said Lucy. "No," said Uncle Pete. "Everybody goes swimming on the Fourth of July. They go swimming and they have a picnic." And the Littles do, too! The Littles are planning a surprise party for a speci...

  • The Littles and the Great Halloween Scare

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    The Littles - 5

    "OK, OK," Tom said. "So they've never been scared, eh?" His eyes narrowed. "This year, Lucy, we're really going to scare them!" "What are we going to do, Tom?" asked Lucy. "I don't know," Tom said. "But it'll be the biggest scare this family ever h...

  • The Littles Go Exploring

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    The Littles - 7

    Tom and Lucy find a secret room! "We'll have to tell mother and father right away." "Why?" asked Lucy. "What did you find, Tom?" "These papers belong to Grandpa Little, that's why," answered Tom. "This room -- he must have come here and no one k...

  • The Littles and the Big Storm

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    The Littles - 10

    Outside, the big storm blows. Inside, there's adventure (and a mystery) for the tiny Littles! ...



  • The Littles and Their Friends

    The Littles - 9

  • The Littles and the Trash Tinies

    The Littles - 6

    "Where are we?" asked Mr. Little. He stood up and looked around. "We're under the junk!" Tom said. "Then this must be Trash City," said Mr. Little. Tom, Lucy, and Mr. Little must get to Trash City to deliver a message to their friends, the Trash T...

  • The Tom Little's Great Halloween Scare

    The Littles (First Readers)

    New Book. Purchased from long time Charlotte bookstore(all new books) liquidation sale. While at the sale, I noticed many of the books were being pulled out of old boxes at the back of the store. Many of the books had obviously been in shop for many ...

  • The Secret Hide-Out

  • The Littles and the Trash Things

    The Littles (First Readers)

  • The Littles and the Lost Children

    The Littles (First Readers)

    Trouble in Trash City... Major Nick Little and a band of soldiers from Trash City come across a scary scene in the town dump -- a tiny person's camp has been attacked! And inside the tent are two tiny babies Major Nick has never seen before. ...

  • The Littles and the Terrible Tiny Kid

    The Littles (First Readers)

    The Littles are in for some big trouble! The bedroom is a mess. . . . The strings on the old tin can elevator are tangled. . . . Henry Biggs' parakeet is loose. . . . And someone has knocked over the honey jar. . . . "Oh, no!" Mr. Little sa...

  • The Littles Go to School

    The Littles - 11

    "I still don't see why I have to go," said Lucy. "But Lucy, it's fun," said Tom. "You get to see lots of the tiny kids from all over the Big Valley. We use the chalkboards. We read some of the textbooks the big kids use. There are maps and charts, a...

  • The Littles Ready-to-Go

    Reproducible activities for The Littles. The Littles is the first book in the popular series about the tiny family that lives within the walls of the Biggs' house. The Littles' settled, happy lives are turned topsy-turvy when the vacationing Biggs re...

  • The Littles and Their Amazing New Friend

    The Littles (First Readers)

    When their mini hot-air balloon crash lands in a society of unknown tinies, Tom Little and his Uncle Nick get to know a young girl named Glory and a community still living in the old-fashioned style of the eighteenth century....



  • The Littles Go Around the World

    The Littles (First Readers)

    Tom and Lucy Little have an incredible adventure when they accidentally get taken to school with Henry Bigg's gerbil, in an early reader adaptation of a chapter book featuring the Little family. Original....

  • The Littles Make a Friend

    The Littles (First Readers)

    All is peaceful in the house owned by the Bigg family until the slovenly Newcomb family and destructive mice threaten to ruin the secret existence of the Little family, who live in the walls of the Bigg house. Original....

  • The Littles and the Big Blizzard

    The Littles (First Readers)

    Dinky is flying Aunt Lily to help deliver Mrs. Little's baby, but on the way, Aunt Lily falls out of the plane and gets lost in a blizzard, so Dinky, Mr. Little, Tom, Uncle Pete, and Hildy the cat go to search for her....

  • The Littles Get Trapped

    The Littles (First Readers)

    With the Bigg family away on vacation, the Littles--a tiny family living secretly inside the walls of the Bigg house--must find a way to feed Hildy, the cat, and escape from the refrigerator, before the Bigg family returns....

  • The Littles and the Secret Letter

    The Littles (First Readers)

    Lucy's letter to Henry Bigg could get the whole family in trouble. Tom has to get the letter back!...

  • The Littles Go On A Hike

    The Littles (First Readers)

    The latest title in a new line of Littles books for beginning readers, this story was adapted from The Littles Take a Trip (Scholastic 1968).

    Lucy Little has a best friend named Tina Small. The tiny girls send letters back and forth via Cousin...

  • The Littles and the Summer Storm

    The Littles (First Readers)

  • The Littles and the Scary Halloween

    The Littles (First Readers)

    This new addition to the series for beginning readers was adapted from THE LITTLES AND THE GREAT HALLOWEEN SCARE (Scholastic 1975).

    Every Halloween, Tom and Lucy try to think up a trick that will really scare their parents -- but nothing works...

  • The Littles Have a Happy Valentine's Day

    The Littles (First Readers)

    Cousin Dinky Little has big news for the family: he and Della Kett are going to be married on Valentines' Day! The only problem is that the wedding has to take place in the Longs' house, which is almost a block away. That means that Granny and Mrs. L...

  • The Littles Get Lost

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    The Littles (First Readers)



  • The Littles Have a Merry Christmas

    The Littles (First Readers)

    This new addition to the series for beginning readers was adapted from THE LITTLES AND THE TRASH TINIES (Scholastic 1977).

    It's almost Christmas, and all the Littles are full of good cheer...all except Uncle Nick. Uncle Nick just moved in. It ...

  • The Littles and the Perfect Christmas

    The Littles

    Welcome to the world of the Littles. They are just a few inches tall, but they have big adventures! Tom and Lucy Little are wishing that this year their family will have a perfect Christmas. But what they discover in the Biggs' basement is even b...

  • The Brutus Directive

    What would the country do if we found that the Russian Coup was staged for our benefit and a group of Stalinist generals were going to set a bomb off in the Senate Hall during the State of the Union Address killing off the Presidential Succession. If...

  • David Carver

    In 1985, the head of a very successful Connecticut aeronautics firm takes off time to uncover who murdered his beautiful mother in 1955 in a town in the Midwest to which his family has no known connection. He is driven not only to find the killer bu...

  • Best Laid Plans

  • The Return of Father Brown

    In spite of the quiet setting, Bardo County in the American Midwest enjoys a lot of murders, and there is only person who is able to solve them: an old priest in his 90’s, serving as the Assistant Pastor as St. Dominic’s parish. His name is Fathe...

  • Mathematics for Machine Technology

  • The Littles Do Their Homework

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    The Littles (First Readers)

    This new addition to the series for beginning readers was
    adapted from THE LITTLES GO TO SCHOOL and THE LITTLES GIVE A PARTY.

    Tom and Lucy Little were good students. They knew how to read. They knew how to write. They could add and subtract...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Peterson has published 37 books.

The next book by John Peterson, Mathematics for Machine Technology, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by John Peterson, The Littles, was published in January 1967.

Yes. John Peterson has 2 series.
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