Kate Douglas Wiggin Books In Order

Penelope’s Progress Books In Order

  1. Penelope’s Progress (1898)
  2. Penelope’s Irish Experiences (1901)
  3. Penelope’s English Experiences (1902)
  4. Penelope’s Experiences in Scotland (1906)
  5. Penelope’s Postscripts (1915)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Books In Order

  1. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
  2. New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907)
  3. More about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1930)

Novels

  1. The Story of Patsy (1883)
  2. A Summer in a Canon (1889)
  3. A Cathedral Courtship (1893)
  4. Polly Oliver’s Problem (1893)
  5. Timothy’s Quest (1894)
  6. Marm Lisa (1896)
  7. The Diary of a Goose Girl (1902)
  8. Half-A-dozen Housekeepers (1903)
  9. The Affair At the Inn (1904)
  10. A Village Stradivarius (1904)
  11. Finding a Home (1907)
  12. Rose O’ the River (1907)
  13. Susanna and Sue (1909)
  14. The Old Peabody Pew (1910)
  15. Mother Carey’s Chickens (1911)
  16. The Story of Waitstill Baxter (1913)
  17. Bluebeard (1914)
  18. The Girl and the Kingdom (1915)
  19. The Romance Of A Christmas Card (1916)
  20. Ladies-in-waiting (1919)
  21. The Flag Raising (2004)

Omnibus

  1. Black Beauty / Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (2000)

Collections

  1. The Birds’ Christmas Carol (1887)
  2. The Village Watch-tower (1895)
  3. The Posy Ring (1908)
  4. The Writings of Kate Douglas Wiggin (1917)
  5. Homespun Tales (1920)
  6. Tales of Laughter (1934)
  7. Beneath Another Sky (1989)

Chapbooks

  1. Foreroom Rug (1998)

Anthologies edited

  1. The Story Hour (1890)
  2. The Arabian Nights (1909)
  3. The Fairy Ring (1910)

Non fiction

  1. Children’s Rights (1892)
  2. A Child’s Journey with Dickens (1912)
  3. My Garden of Memory (1923)

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Books Overview

Penelope’s Progress

We buy our tea of the Pettybaw grocer, some of our cups are cracked, the teapot is of earthenware, Miss Grieve disapproves of all social tea fuddles and shows it plainly when she brings in the tray, and the room is so small that some of us overflow into the hall or the garden; it matters not; there is some fatal charm in our humble hospitality. from Chapter XX Penelope Hamilton is a young American lady abroad in Scotland with her friends Francesca, who is ‘aggressively American,’ and Salemina, ‘a citizen of the world.’ Together they endure the damp chill of Edinburgh, attend an aristocrat’s birthday feast, are presented at the Scottish court, explore the countryside, and immerse themselves in the society of small town Scottish life. Romance and marriage may also find themselves in the offing. First published in 1898, this is a long forgotten classic from one of the most beloved authors of young adult fiction…
the kind that adults enjoy even more than children do. Brew a pot of tea and settle in for a delightful read.

Penelope’s Irish Experiences

‘Ballyragget, Ballysadare, Ballybrophy, Ballinasloe, Ballyhooley, Ballycumber, Ballyduff, Ballynashee, Ballywhack. Don’t they all sound jolly and grotesque?’ These places in Ireland may sound that way to Francesca. But not to Penelope! You remember, Penelope, don’t you? She’s the delightful Kate Douglas Wiggin hero*ine of Penelope English Experiences and Penelope’s Experiences in Scotland. But where or not you’ve read those books, and really, you should! you simply must read Penelope’s Irish Experiences. After plenty of wistful tea and scones in Scotland, Penelope and her friends Francesca and Salemina boat over to Ireland, faintly fearful it won’t be Irish enough! No worries. From thoughts on the differences in Fairies in Ireland and Scotland to a the lack of poetry in the Irish diet, Penelope’s observations make a true feast, with flashes of verbal jigs and reels. Oh yes…
and then in comes the remarkable Miss Benella Dusenberry from New England, to join the fun and frolic! Kate Douglas Wiggin of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and the charm of Ireland conquer our hearts again.

Penelope’s English Experiences

I get on charmingly with the English nobility and sufficiently well with the gentry, but the upper servants strike terror to my soul. There is something awe inspiring to me about an English butler. from Chapter II Penelope Hamilton is a young American lady, genteelly poor, abroad in England with her friends Francesca, who is young and flighty, and Salemina, a sophisticated gentlewoman. Together they explore the British way of life, from the bustling Saturday night street markets and the polite fiction of privacy courting couples enjoy on park strolls to elegant balls at which young ladies make their social debuts to the cheery innkeepers who take the travelers under their wing. First published in 1900, this is a long forgotten classic from one of the most beloved authors of young adult fiction…
the kind that adults enjoy even more than children do. Brew a pot of tea and settle in for a delightful read. American author and educator KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN 1856 1923 was born in Philadelphia. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 but is perhaps best known as the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

Penelope’s Experiences in Scotland

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: confronted instead with a caravan of silver jugs, china jugs, bowls of hard and soft sugar, hot milk, cold milk, hot water, and cream, while each in her secret heart wishes that the other two were less exigeante in the matter of diet and beverages. This does not sound promising, but it works perfectly well in practice by the exercise of a little flexibility. As we left dear old Dovermarle Street and Smith’s Private Hotel behind, and drove to the station to take the Flying Scotsman, we indulged in floods of reminiscence over the joys of travel we had tasted together in the past, and talked with lively anticipation of the new experiences awaiting us in the land of heather. While Salemina went to purchase the three first class tickets, I superintended the porters as they disposed our luggage in the van, and in so doing my eye lighted upon a third class carriage which was, for a wonder, clean, comfortable, and vacant. Comparing it hastily with the first class compartment being held by Francesca, I found that it differed only in having no carpet on the floor, and a smaller number of buttons in the upholstering. This was really heartrending when the difference in fare for three persons would be at least twenty dollars. What a delightful sum to put aside for a rainy day ! that is, be it understood, what a delightful sum to put aside and spend on the first rainy day! for that is the way we always interpret the expression. ‘ 1’here were thirteen men in line behind When Salemina returned with the tickets, she found me, as usual, bewailing our extravagance. Francesca descended suddenly from her post, and, wresting the tickets from her duenna, exclaimed, ”I know that I can save the country, and I know no other man can!’ as William Pitt said to the Duke of Devonshire. I h…

Penelope’s Postscripts

BACK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC One difficulty about the faithful study of Italian frescoes is that they can never be properly viewed unless one is extended at full length on the flat of one’s honorable back as they might say in Japan, a position not suitable in a public building. Do you recall the diaries of Penelope? Yes, those the ones about her visits to England, Scotland, and Ireland! How they thrilled and amused countless readers when they came out…
but then Penelope went all quiet, doing things like getting married and raising children. Now, though, Penelope has a little time to tour again, and oh, how she likes to scribble about it. Here, dear reader, are her adventures in Europe, delivered with bons mots and panache. And what of her pals Salemina and Francesca? Indeed, they are here. Along with Switzerland, Italy, Wales and Devon, and the most rewarding place of all: Home. Read on, dear reader. Read on!

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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New Chronicles of Rebecca

Jacob Moody of Riverboro was tall, gaunt and swarthy, black bearded his mas*ses of grizzled, uncombed hair and the red scar across his nose and cheek adding to his sinister appearance. His tumble down house stood on a rocky bit of land back of the Sawyer pasture, and the acres of his farm stretched out on all sides of it. He lived alone, ate alone, plowed, planted, sowed, harvested alone, and was more than willing to die alone, ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung.’ So who would ever think to visit him, and urge him to attend church? But a new Home Mission society has been set up by the girls, which has elected as its first president that ‘will o’ the wispish little person,’ Rebecca! And when she sets her mind to a task…
Kate Douglas Wiggin 1856 1923, author of such works as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Penelope’s English Experiences, and A Village Stradivarius, was one of America’s most popular writers of books for young people.

The Story of Patsy

It was a hard working and bustling place, but a loving and joyous one that kindergarten by Silver Street where I was working. I grew to knew all my eighty charges, for their fusses, their foibles, their tantrums and their trilling laughter. Then one day I was surprised to have someone knocking for admittance. A boy! ‘Kin yer take me in, Miss Kate?’ said he. ‘My name’s Patsy. I bin waitin’ this yer long whiles fur to git in.’ ‘Why, my dear little boy,’ I said, gazing dubiously at him, ‘you’re too big, aren’t you? We have only tiny people here, you know, children not six years old.’ ‘Well, I’m nine by the book, but I ain’t more ‘n scerce six along o’ my losing them three year.’ ‘What do you mean, child? How could you lose three years?’ ‘I lost ’em on the back stairs, don’t yer know. My father he got fightin’ mad when he was drunk, and pitched me down two flights of ’em, and my back was most clean broke in two, so I couldn’t git out o’ bed forever till just now! Kin yer take me in, Miss Kate?’

A Summer in a Canon

1889. Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story begins: It was nine o’clock one sunny California morning, and Geoffrey Strong stood under the live oak trees in Las Flores Canon, with a pot of black paint in one hand and a huge brush in the other. He could have handled these implements to better purpose and with better grace had not his arms been firmly held by three laughing girls, who pulled not wisely, but too well. He was further incommoded by the presence of a small urchin who lay on the dusty ground beneath his feet, fastening an upward clutch on the legs of his trousers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

A Cathedral Courtship

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

Polly Oliver’s Problem

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

Timothy’s Quest

Wilkins’s Wood was a quiet stretch of timber land that lay along the banks of Pleasant River; and though the natives, for the most part, never noticed that it was paved with asphalt and roofed in with oilcloth, yet it was, nevertheless, the most tranquil bit of loveliness in all the country round. Here was a quiet pool where the rushes bent to the breeze…
and there, a winding path where the cattle came down to drink of the river’s nectar. Here the first mayflowers pushed their sweet heads through the reluctant earth, and waxen Indian pipes grew in the moist places…
And here sat Timothy Jessup, with all his heart in his eyes, bidding good by to all this soft and tender loveliness. For Timothy Jessup was running away again. Kate Douglas Wiggin 1856 1923, with such works as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Story of Patsy and A Village Stradivarius, earned a permanent place in the heart of America’s youth.

Marm Lisa

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

The Diary of a Goose Girl

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This is followed by the gobble gobble, moo moo, baa baa, etc., as long as the laureate’s imagination and the infant’s breath hold good. The tune is pretty and I do not know, or did not, when I was young, a more fascinating lyric. Thorn*ycroft House must have belonged to a country The sitting kens gentleman once upon a time, or to more than one; men who built on a bit here and there once in a hundred years, until finally we have this charmingly irregular and dilapidated whole. You go up three steps into Mrs. Heaven’s room, down two into mine, while Phoebe’s is up in a sort of turret with long, narrow lattices opening into the creepers. There are crooked little staircases, passages that branch off into other passages and lead nowhere in particular; I can’t think of a better house in which to play hide and seek on a wet day. In front, what was once, doubtless, a green, is cut up into greens; to wit, a vegetable garden, where the onions, turnips, and potatoes grow cosily up to the very door sill ; the utilitarian aspect of it all being varied by some scarlet runners and a scattering of poppies on either side of the path. The Belgian hares have their habitation in a corner fifty feet distant; one large inclosure for poultry lies just outside the sweetbriar hedge ; the others, with all the houses and coops, are in the meadow at the back, where also our tumbler pigeons are kept. Phoebe attends to the poultry ; it is her department. Mr. Heaven has neither the force nor the finesse required, and the gentle reader who thinks these qualities unneeded in so humble a calling has only to spend a few days at Thorn*ycroft to be convinced. Mrs. Heaven would be of use, but she is dressing the Square Baby in the morning and putting him to bed at night just at the hours when the feathe…

A Village Stradivarius

Anthony Croft in boyhood had been exactly like all the other boys in Edgewood, save that he hated school a trifle more, if possible, than any of the others. The only place where he found peace with himself was out in the woods. When he should have been poring over the sweet, palpitating mysteries of the multiplication table, his vagrant gaze was settled upon the open window near which he sat. Yet he had learned about the world, in his own way…
and now, many years later, he had his own way of passing it along. Lifting his violin to his chin, he inclined his head fondly toward it and began to play…
and the tone rang out with velvety richness and strength until the atmosphere was satiated with harmony. No more ethereal note ever flew out of a bird’s throat than Anthony Croft set free from this violin, his ‘swan song’…
the treasure he had made in the year he lost his eyesight. Kate Douglas Wiggin 1856 1923, author of such works as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Penelope’s English Experiences, was one of America’s most popular writer of books for young people.

Finding a Home

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Rose O’ the River

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ‘The Edgeivood ‘ Drive ‘ JUST where the bridge knits together the two little villages of Pleasant River and Edgewood, the glassy mirror of the Saco broadens suddenly, sweeping over the dam in a luminous torrent. Gushes of pure amber mark the middle of the dam, with crystal and silver at the sides, and from the seething vortex beneath the golden cascade the white spray dashes up in fountains. In the crevices and hollows of the rocks the mad water churns itself into snowy froth, while the foam flecked torrent, deep, strong, and troubled to its heart, sweeps majestically under the bridge, then dashes between wooded shores piled high with steep mas*ses of rock, or torn and riven by great gorges. There had been much rain during the summer, and the Saco was very high, so on the third day of the Edgewood drive there was considerable excitement at the bridge, and a goodly audience of villagers from both sides of the river. There were some who never came, some who had no fancy for the sight, some to whom it was an old story, some who were too busy, but there were many to whom it was the event of events, a never ending source of interest. Above the fall, covering the placid surface of the river, thousands of logs lay quietly ‘ in boom ‘ until the ‘ turning out’ process, on the last day of the drive, should release them and give them their chance of display, their brief moment of notoriety, their opportunity of interesting, amusing, exciting, and exasperating the onlookers by their antics. Heaps of logs had been cast up on the rocks below the dam, where they lay in hopeless confusion, adding nothing, however, to the problem of the moment, for they too bided their time. If they had possessed wisdom, discretion, and caution, they might have slipped gracefully over the falls and, st…

Susanna and Sue

1909. A novel from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Contents: Mother Ann’s Children; A Son of Adam; Divers Doctrines; Louisa’s Mind; The Little Quail Bird; Susanna speaks in Meeting; The Lower Plane; Concerning Backsliders; Love Manifold; Brother and Sister; The Open Door; and The Hills of Home. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

The Old Peabody Pew

The Dorcas society of the little church has set its collective mind to the task of re dressing the floors which means cleaning the pews, too and if they cannot have it done by Thanksgiving, why, then, let it be by Christmas. Nancy Wentworth, at thirty five the most vivacious of them, with her youth undimmed by her work as teacher, throws herself into the work, even the dirty business of scrubbing. She begins to clean the Peabody Pew, which starts Mrs. Sargent into the subject of that worthless Peabody son, long missing. ‘I know there’s a Peabody still alive and doing business in Detroit,’ Mrs. Burbank says then, ‘for I got his address a week ago, and I wrote asking if he would send a few dollars toward repairing the old church.’ Nancy turns her face to the wall and silently wipes at the paint of the wainscoting. The blood that has rushed into her cheeks at Mrs. Sargent’s jeering reference to Justin Peabody still lingers there, for anyone at all to read. The Old Peabody Pew is the quiet and heart warming story of a Christmas romance in an old country church, by the author of The Birds’ Christmas Carol and Penelope’s English Experiences.

Mother Carey’s Chickens

SUMMER MAGIC! When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to be still a family, and did not succeed at all. They clung as closely to one another as ever they could, but there was always a gap in the circle where father had been. The only thing to do was to remember father’s pride and justify it, to recall his care for mother and take his place so far as might be; the only thing for all, as the months went on, was to be what mother called the three Bs brave, bright, and busy. Can mother Nancy Carey find happy futures for her daughters Nancy and Kitty in turn of the century Beulah, Maine? Perhaps? But for certain, she finds some wonderful characters and sparkling moments of Gilded Age Girl Power! This heart warming classic novel of a better time by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the basis for Disney’s 1963 film Summer Magic with Hayley Mills.

The Story of Waitstill Baxter

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

Bluebeard

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

The Girl and the Kingdom

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

The Romance Of A Christmas Card

‘My door is on the latch tonight, The hearth fire is aglow. I seem to hear swift passing feet The Christ Child in the snow.’ Reba, the minister’s new wife, was spirited, vigorous, courageous, and clever. She was also invincibly, incurably happy so that the minister seemed to grow younger every year. Reba doubled his joys and halved his burdens, tossing them from one of her fine shoulders to the other like feathers. She swept into the quiet village life of Beulah like a salt sea breeze. Now she has a plan one involving a few small verses she has penned. For there are rebellious youths and some contention in the church that threatens to split it…
Kate Douglas Wiggin 1856 1923 was author of such popular works as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Penelope’s English Experiences.

Ladies-in-waiting

LADIES IN WAITING CONTENTS MISS THOMASINA TUCKER I THE TURNING POINT 97 HULDAH THE PROPHETESS I49 Two ON A TOUR 189 PHILIPPAS NERVOUS PROSTRATION 275 LADIES IN WAITING . . MISS THOMASINA TUCKER LADIES IN WAITING MISS THOMASINA TUCKER GOOD BYE, Miss Tucker Good luck, Miss Tommy Bye, bye, Tomsie Dont stay away too long These sentiments were being called from the Hoboken dock to the deck of an ocean steamer, while a young lady, buried in bou quets and bonbons, leaned over the rail, sparkling, inciting, compelling, responding. Take care of yourself, Tommy I dont see but that I must Nobody else to do it she responded saucily. You would nt let em if they tried This from a rosy cheeked youngster who was as close to the waters edge as safety per mitted. Say, did you guess what my floral LADIES IN WAITING offering was to be when you trimmed your hat I am flattered Sorry The hat was trimmed weeks ago, and Im wearing your bouquet because it matches. Thanks, awfully, replied the crestfallen youth. Plans for reduction of head size constantly on file in Miss Tuckers office. Just Carls luck to hit on a match. Dont see any particular luck in being accessory to a hat trim*ming, grumbled Carl. Write now and then, Miss Tommy, wont you said a fellow with eyeglas*ses and an air of fashion. Wont promise Ill wait till Im rich enough to cable Shilling a words expensive, but you can send em to me collect. My word is Hope ful, at which the little party laughed. Register another, and make it Uncer tain, called the girl roguishly, seeing that no one was paying any attention to her friends and their nonsense. MISS THOMASINA TUCKER London first, is it asked the rosy youth. Decided on your hotel Hotel Its going to be my share of a modest Bloomsbury lodging, she answered. Got to sing my way from a third floor back in a side street to a gorgeous suite at the Ritz Well watch you cried three in chorus. But wed rather hear you, darling, said a nice, tailor made girl, whose puffy eyelids looked as if she had been crying. Blessed lamb I hope Ill be better worth hearing Oh, do go home, all of you espe cially you, Jessie My courage is oozing out at the heels of my shoes. Disappear Ive been farewelling actively for an hour and casually for a week. If they dont take off the gangplank in a minute or two I shant have pluck enough to stick to the ship. You cant expect us to brace you up, Tommy, said the rosy youth. Were los ing too much by it. Come along back What S the matter with America Dont talk to her that way, Carl, 5 LADIES IN WAITING and the tailor made girl looked at him re proachfully. You know shes got nobody and nothing to come back to. Shes given up her room. Shes quarreled with her beastly uncle at last all her belongings are in the hold of the steamer, and shes made up her mind. All ashore thats going ashore The clarion tones of the steward rang through the air for the third time, and the loud beating of the ships gong showed that the last mo ment had come. The gangplank was removed and the great liner pushed off and slowly wended her way down river, some of the more faithful ones in the crowd waving hand kerchiefs until she was a blur in the distance. Well, theres no truer way of showing loyalty than by going to Hoboken to see a friend off, said the eyeglassed chap as he walked beside Jessie Macleod to the ferry. I would nt do it for anybody but Tommy. Nor I exclaimed the rosy youth. Good old Tommy I wonder whether shell sing and have a career, or fall in love over there 6

The Flag Raising

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

The Birds’ Christmas Carol

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY Scene: The kitchen of the ‘house in the rear.’ It is early morning, and the light is still dim even when aided by a kerosene lamp. The walls of the room are of any dull color and the general look of things, though denoting poverty, need not be sordid or untidy. To the right, front, is a door leading into a woodshed; in the rear wall, center, is a door leading to the alley; to the right and left of this are narrow, four paned windows partly covered by sash curtains. In the left wall, to the front, is a door leading to a bedroom and the stairs which lead to the upper rooms. To the right, front, is an iron sink in wooden frame; before it stands a soap box, bottom upwards. A dishpan hangs on the side toward the audience. On the wall, to right of sink, is a cupboard. In line with the sink, to the back, is a small cook stove in which a bright fire is burning and on which are placed a steaming teakettle, an iron pot, and a large tin boiler pushed to the back. Between the stove and the sink, toward center of stage, is a small kitchen table covered by a brown oil cloth and meagerly set with dishes a large pitcher, bowls and spoons, a bread board, and a syrup pitcher. There are four stiff wooden chairs about the table. A small unlighted lamp is on the table. In the left corner, back, is a large screen fashioned of a clotheshorse covered neatly with coarse brown denimor burlap. Beneath the screen are visible the solid legs of a small wooden bed. The soft sides of the screen bulge, after the opening of the act, with the pressure of small bodies struggling into clothes. To the front, left, is a low wooden bureau. Over one corner of the looking glass is hung a heavy chain of sea shells to which is attached an anchor carved from bark…
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The Village Watch-tower

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

The Posy Ring

qA box of jewels, shop of rarities, A ring whose posy was My pleasure’q George Herbert

Homespun Tales

Kate Douglas Wiggin, a woman born in Philadelphia of Welsh descent, was an American children’s author and educator. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the Silver Street Free Kindergarten. In the 1880s, she and her sister established a training school for kindergarten teachers. But nowadays she’s remembered as a writer of children’s books, the best known being The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903. Homespun Tales is a collection of three stories set in the Maine countryside, telling tales of the people of Maine. ‘Rose O’ the River’ is about the river of the title, flowing from the Saco Mountains to the Atlantic, and the effect it has on those who live by it. ‘The Old Peabody Pew’ is in the Tory Hill Meeting house, which the Dorcas Society strives to keep maintianed with slender means, and serves as the place of reunion of Justin Peabody and his sweetheart Nancy Wentworth when he returns home after fruitless efforts to make a place in the world. ‘Susanna and Sue’ touches upon the lives of the Shaker sect, who vow simplicity, chastity, and holding goods in common, and the difficulties posed for them when young lovers find the rigors of Shaker life too much to bear.

The Story Hour

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith 1856 1923 was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 the ‘Silver Street Free Kindergarten’. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty 1883, The Birds’ Christmas Carol 1887, Polly Oliver’s Problem 1893, A Cathedral Courtship 1893, The Village Watchtoer 1896, Marm Lisa 1897 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903.

The Arabian Nights

THERE was an emperor of Persia named Kosrouschah, who, when he first came to his crown, in order to obtain a knowledge of affairs, took great pleasure in night excursions, attended by a trusty minister. He often walked in disguise through the city, and met with many adventures, one of the most remarkable of which happened to him upon his first ramble, which was not long after his accession to the throne of his father. After the ceremonies of his father’s funeral rites and his own inauguration were over, the new sultan, as well from inclination as from duty, went out one evening attended by bis grand vizier, disguised like himself, to observe what was transacting in the city. As lie was passing through a street in that part of the town inhabited only by the meaner sort, he heard some people talking very loud; and going close to the bouse whence the noise proceeded, and looking through a crack in the door, perceived a light, and three sisters sitting on a sofa, conversing together afteTable of Contents The Talking Bird, the Singing Tkel, and the; Golden Water $; The Story of the Fisherman and thf, Genie 52; The History of the Young King of the Black Isles 07; The Story of Gulnare of the Sea 81; The Story of Aladdin ; or, the Wonderful Lamp 97; The Story of Prince Agib 190; The Story of the City of Brass 205; The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 229; The History of Codadad and His Brothers 204; The Story of Sinbad the Voyager 290About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally en

The Fairy Ring

Here are the favorite fairy tales of many countries, told for modern children as they have been told for centuries to boys and girls in every part of the world. There are English, Spanish, French, an German Stories. There are tales from the Norse and Gaelic mythology, from the Russian and the East Indian. Kate Douglas Wiggin in her introduction says, ‘Old nurses and village crones have repeated them by the fireside and in the chimney corner; shepherds and cowboys have recounted them by the brookside, until the children of the world have all learned them by heart, bequeathing them, generation after generation, as a priceless legacy to their own children.’

Children’s Rights

In still another of God’s fair lands a child entered the world, and he grew toward manhood vigorous and lusty; but he heeded not his parents’ commands, and when his disobedience had been long continued, the fathers of the tribe decreed that he should be stoned to death, for so it was written in the sacred books. And as the youth was the absolute property of his parents, and as by common consent they had full liberty to deal with him as seemed good to them, they consented unto his death, that his soul might be saved alive, and the evening sun shone crimson on his dead body as it lay upon the sands of the desert.

A Child’s Journey with Dickens

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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