The 16 children's books by Kate Douglas Wiggin on this CD include Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Intended for use with Windows PCs, these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access. The Birds' Christmas Carol (story) Bluebeard (story) A Cathedral Courtship (story) Children's Rights and Others The Diary of a Goose Girl (story) The Flag-Raising (story) Homespun Tales Marm Lisa Mother Carey's Chickens New Chronicles of Rebecca The Old Peabody Pew (story) Penelope's English Experiences Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Penelope's Irish Experiences Penelope's Postscripts Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Rose O' the River The Story Hour (with Nora Smith) The Story of Patsy The Story of Waitstill Baxter A Summer in a Canyon Talking Beasts, edited by Wiggin and by Nora Archibald Smith, 1922 A Village Stradivarius (story) The Village Watch-Tower
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 (1886), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).