author
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
1856–1923
Best known for the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, she also helped shape early kindergarten education in the United States. Her work brought together a teacher's faith in childhood and a storyteller's gift for warm, lively characters.
39 Audiobooks
Mother Carey's Chickens
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Village Watch-Tower
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
New Chronicles of Rebecca
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Villiruusu
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers: A Story for Girls in Half-A-Dozen Chapters
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Postscripts
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Froebel's Gifts
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
The Diary of a Goose Girl
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Romance of a Christmas Card
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Village Stradivarius
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Irish Experiences
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Marm Lisa
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Polly Oliver's Problem
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Keltaisen talon lapset
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Story of Waitstill Baxter
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Robinetta
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay
Bluebeard; a musical fantasy
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Flag-Raising
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Susanna and Sue
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Affair at the Inn
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay
Rose o' the River
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Story of Patsy
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Homespun Tales
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The quilt of happiness; Creeping Jenny; and other New England stories
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Ladies-In-Waiting
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1856, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin spent much of her childhood in Maine, a setting that later colored some of her best-loved fiction. Before she became widely known as a writer, she worked as an educator and became an important supporter of the kindergarten movement in the United States.
In California, she helped start one of the first free kindergartens in San Francisco and later took part in training teachers. That experience strongly influenced her writing, which often treats children with humor, sympathy, and respect rather than sentimentality.
Wiggin went on to publish novels, stories, and songs, but she remains most famous for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from 1903. She died in England in 1923, leaving behind a body of work that links children's literature with a deep belief in imagination, education, and everyday kindness.