Kate Douglas Wiggin

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Produktbeschreibung

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall, who, at the age of ten, is sent to live with her spinster aunts, one stern and the other kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.Rebecca brings her youthful enthusiasm and imagination to their mundane life. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding.Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic coming of age story that has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen and continues to charm audiences and readers alike with its interesting characters and positive message of finding happiness in life's simple pleasures!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hawk Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9789392322969
• ISBN-10: 9392322968
• Artikelnr.: 67894158

Autorenporträt

Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator, author, and composer who lived from September 28, 1856, until August 24, 1923. She also created collections of children's songs in addition to writing children's books, most famously the classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In San Francisco, she established the city's first free kindergarten in 1878. (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). She also started a kindergarten teacher training program in the 1880s with her sister. In an era when kids were often seen as cheap labor, Kate Wiggin dedicated her whole life to the welfare of kids. Wiggin traveled to California to research kindergarten instruction. She started teaching in San Francisco with the help of her sister Nora, and the two were crucial in establishing more than 60 kindergartens for the underprivileged in Oakland and San Francisco. She relocated from California to New York, and because she was out of kindergarten assignments, she focused on literature. Her submissions of The Story of Patsy and The Bird's Christmas Carol were immediately accepted by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. She had storytelling ability in addition to being a good singer, guitarist, and composer of settings for her poems. She was a skilled orator as well.