A beautiful gift edition of Susan Coolidge's famous children's book What Katy Did, with original illustrations by Addie Ledyard and an introduction by award-winning children's author Jacqueline Wilson.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was born in 1835 into a wealthy and influential family in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War before establishing a career as a successful and prolific writer of novels, short stories and poems. Her most famous book, What Katy Did, published under her pseudonym Susan Coolidge, was inspired by her own childhood growing up in a large family with younger siblings. Its publication in 1872 was followed by four sequels. She never married and lived most of her adult life in Rhode Island where she died in 1905.
It opens such a vivid window into a domestic world that we have
lost: full of aunts and cousins, innumerable siblings and clearly
drawn moralities
*The Times*
A book about a long lanky tomboy with tangled hair, a crazy
imagination and a whole heap of good intentions. Katy Carr wasn’t
perfect – far from it – but she was perfect for me!
*Cathy Cassidy*
This tale of a boisterous child coming into maturity reads with the
same zest and insight as it would have done when it was first
published over 130 years ago
*Guardian*
Katy speaks with a charm and directness that remains as fresh as
when it was written
*Amanda Craig*
This was one of my favourite books as a child. The children felt
real enough to touch, and I fell head over heels in love with Katy.
It's a book with an unstoppable heart
*Katherine Rundell*
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