Six Little Ducklings

by Katharine Pyle

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset again to produce it without any errors or poor pictures and errant marks.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Katharine Pyle was an American artist, poet, and children's writer. She was educated at the Women's Industrial School and the Drexel Institute, then studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York Art Students' League. She lived in Wilmington her whole life, except for several years in Boston and New York in the 1890s and 1900s.

Over the course of her career she wrote over 30 books and illustrated the books of others. Her art and poetry appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, The Circle, Shooter's Guide, The Saturday Evening Post, Metropolitan Magazine, Youth's Companion, Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Bazaar, and Harper's Young People. She co-authored a collection of 24 whimsical stories entitled The Wonder Clock (1888), with her brother Howard Pyle. Her art was also exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.

The Delaware Art Museum has a substantial collection of her manuscripts.

Her mother was author M.C. Pyle. Her sister-in-law was Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle.

Librarian note: This author's name is often misspelled as Katherine.