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Jul 27, 2013
Jessica
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I discovered this book at one of those bargain book outlet dealies when I was a teenager and just ate it up. As someone who read Little Women and Anne of Green Gables over and over again, the fact that no one told me about Katy until I was in high school (and had already bought this book) was, well, negligent on the part of anyone who knew me. This is a wonderful book in the vein of those other, more well-known classics, about a loving, rough-and-tumble family lead by the headstrong Katy. In the
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I don't know how I missed this in childhood, when I read most of the Victorian/Edwardian "good invalid" books -- Little Women, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Pollyanna -- but I guess I've read it now. Too bad about the super-preachy moralism in the last third, because the first part of the book is about real children behaving realistically, reminding me of the best of L.M. Montgomery or Laura Ingalls Wilder. The children are charming and fun, kind of like the Five Little Peppers except not poor, an
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I read this in grade school and I've been meaning to read the complete and unabridged version. I really like how light this book is. It is very timely.
I bought this on my 38th birthday and finished it almost to the day the book finished on September 6. The last chapter was on September 8. ...more
I bought this on my 38th birthday and finished it almost to the day the book finished on September 6. The last chapter was on September 8. ...more
Like Louisa May Alcott's books, Coolidge's children's novel is focused on the Victorian theme that self-sacrifice, illness, pain, humility, and self-control make little girls into good women. However, I have the sneaking impression that Alcott doesn't completely believe this; Coolidge does. That means, of course, that she deals with the theme in a more thoughtful manner. It is also more annoying if you don't agree with her. I liked Katy better as an annoying hellion than as the angelic, bed-boun
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This series is much more popular in England than in the US, despite being set in what seems to be a small New England town. Perhaps because reading about a girl who is bedridden is not the most exciting thing; however, I always enjoyed it.
May 23, 2007
fin
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Jun 14, 2008
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
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