Childrens series read in the 1970s about a large family with children named after days of the week (or months). Have various folksy adventures

[Roger]

This is not Heckedy-Peg, which is what my Google searches keep coming up with. Each book starts with an explanation of the children's names, which are based on their day of birth but when this becomes too complicated the parents choose month/event as an alternative. Thus Tuesday, Wednesday, April, Christmas as examples but I cannot remember the actual childrens names. I recall the stories as being fairly folksy and short, rather than Enid Blyton style adventures and they may be set in America or the English country, though I slightly lean towards England.

[Capn]

I had a quick look through Characters with Month Names, Characters Named After Days of the Week, and Large Families on Listopia but didn't see anything myself..

Anything on this list look familiar?
Lesser Known Vintage Children's Family Series
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

(Can you tell us anything more about the individual adventures? Any settings? Might give us a lead!)

[Rainbowheart]

Dang, this sounds familiar!

I could have sworn there was something similar on the Large Families list, but, like Capn, I'm not seeing it there.

Kinda reminds me of Mr. Apple's Family and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, but the first has kids named after apples, and the second has kids named after continents.

[Hazel]

I was just looking for a book like this. Was it the problim children?

[Capn]

The Problim Children for the link (Hazel's)

(but the book was read in the 1970s, so...)

[Capn]

Ah, I don't think this is a series - thought I had it for a sec! 1968

The Seven Days
In which all the Day children, and there are seven of them, have an adventure. Things were bound to happen to them, for each of them had been born on a different day of the week. Mr Faraday, the shoe-maker, told Peggy (born on a Thursday) the old rhyme that begins 'Monday's child is fair of face,' but Sally was born on a Monday and she was quite sure she was not pretty enough to be chosen as May Queen. But it all comes true, right down to the baby, born on a Sunday and 'merry and blithe and good and gay.'

Each one of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Day was born on a different day of the week and each proves his similarity to the rhyme, "Monday's child is fair of face/Tuesday's child is full of grace ...."

I can't find it on OpenLibrary or archive.org, sadly. And I see that they have 'normal' names as well, but can't tell you re: nicknames, etc.

(A serendipitous find - I just bought another book by this author for 50p at a charity shop, and started browsing her bibliography...) :)

It was already on the "Large Families" listopia list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3... - might be a good one to do a browse of. :)

[Capn]

bookel wrote: "1958."

Ah yes, quite right:
112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1958
This edition

Format
112 pages, Hardcover
Published
January 1, 1968 by Meredith Press

But reprinted just before the 70s, when the OP read it. (But I missed the bit where they said it was a series...)

[bookel]

According to worldcat.org 1968 is the first US edition.
Originally published 1958 in London. Series:
[Max Parrish Readers. Stage 3.]
A publisher series could be misremembered as such.