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Kate Douglas Wiggin

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born

September 28, 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

died

August 24, 1923

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Children's Books

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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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).

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Books by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Average rating: 3.73 · 8,309 ratings · 383 reviews · 117 distinct works

	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 3.73 avg rating — 7,588 ratings — published 1903 — 128 editions	My rating:
	Bird's Christmas Carol 3.88 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1886 — 57 editions	My rating:
	The Arabian Nights: Their Best Known Tales by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith (Editor), Maxfield Parrish (Illustrator) 3.63 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1909 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Mother Carey's Chickens 4.00 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1911 — 30 editions	My rating:
	New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Douglas Wiggin Kate Douglas Wiggin 3.12 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1907 — 42 editions	My rating:
	The Romance of a Christmas Card 3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1916 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Claude A. Shepperson (Illustrator) 3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1902 — 32 editions	My rating:
	A Cathedral Courtship 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1983 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm / Black Beauty by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Anna Sewell 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church 2.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1907 — 31 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin

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“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol

14 people liked it

“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, New Chronicles of Rebecca

tags: coming-home , going-away , magic , travel

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