Kate Douglas Wiggin
Author
Language
English
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Description
Kate Douglas Wiggin was an important reformer of children's education at the turn of the century. During a period when children's use in society was often little more than for cheap labor, Kate Douglas Wiggin was dedicated to the betterment of youth. She was the first person to found a free kindergarten school in San Francisco in 1878. Her passion for children's rights carried over to her successful career as an author of children's books. In her...
3) Black Beauty
Author
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story. In our electronic age, children are more likely to dial up a website than curl up with a book. But in DK Classics, expert abridgments and retellings are matched with brilliant illustrations to create books which will capture the attention of today's visually sophisticated...
Author
Publisher
Riverside Press
Pub. Date
1893
Language
English
Description
Pauline Oliver, in Polly Oliver's Problem, chafes against spending the rest of her life helping her mother run a boarding house--then must take charge when the Widow Oliver suffers poor health and must move to a healthier clime.
14) Froebel's gifts
Author
Series
Republic of childhood volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1895
Language
English
Author
Series
Republic of childhood volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1896
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.
20) Summer magic
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine.