November is the perfect time to re-read old favourites, so when Olduvai reminded me that Jean Webster's novel would fit perfectly into my epistolary Fridays, it wasn't long before I was re-reading. I first read this book the summer that I was eleven, the first summer in which I was
Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did at School (1873) What’s better than a boarding school story? Nothing much. Even though the fictional Katy and her beloved sister Clover weren’t especially fond of the idea of being sent away (too much responsibility at home was making them grow too serious,
Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did (1872) Susan Coolidge was the pen name of author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, whose Katy series is her best known work, What Katy Didbeing the first of that series. Do you know Katy Carr?[You might also recognize the name of her niece, author Gamel Woolsey, whose
Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown (1958). Illus. Mary Stevens NY: Dell Publishing, 1968. Even though it's the fourth, rather than the first, this is the volume of Sydney Taylor's series that I re-read most often. (Actually, I never read either the third or the fifth/final volumes until now; I didn't
Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family (1951) Random House-Yearling, 1989. (Actually, Delacorte's 1995 cover image shown.) If you'd been at the library on the day that the girls went in the book's opening scene, you could've been introduced to them along with Miss Allen, the pretty new librarian. There's Ella, the oldest,
