Kate Douglas Wiggin: 173 books

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Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...

According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 - 1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 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...

Novel for children. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 - 1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 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)....

Book-length collection of stories for children and teens, including The Pine and the Rose, Old Kennebec, The Edgewood rive, Blasphemous Searin', The Game of Jackstraws, Hearts and other Hearts, The Little House, The Garden of Eden, The Serpent, The Turquoise Ring, Rose Sees the World, Gold and Pinchbeck,...

Collection of short stories for the very young. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 - 1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the...

'A Cathedral Courtship' was first published in 1893, appearing in a volume with 'Penelope's English Experiences.' In course of time, the latter story, finding unexpected favour in the public eyes, left its modest companion, and was promoted to a separate existence, with pictures and covers of its...

More than a dozen years ago musical scholars and critics began to illuminate the musical darkness of New York with lecture-recitals explanatory of the more abstruse German operas. Previous to this era no one had ever thought, for instance, of unfolding the story, or the “Leit motive” (if there happened...

We are doing the English cathedral towns, aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn’t for the world have it too much improved, and aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.

“I DON' know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child, ” Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia's letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. “I s'posed of course Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody else.

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This charming narrative is set on the bank of a river and dwells on simple village life. It shows triumph of deep-seated emotions and the sincere efforts made to bring that about. The characters develop and expand with the plot and the theme is skillfully conveyed.

To a certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown to the world, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown:—