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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
1856–1923
Beloved for the warmth, humor, and independence of her young characters, she became one of the most popular children’s writers of the early 20th century. Her best-known novel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, remains a classic of American children’s literature.
40 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 Village Watch-Tower
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
New Chronicles of Rebecca
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers: A Story for Girls in Half-A-Dozen Chapters
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Villiruusu
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Postscripts
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Diary of a Goose Girl
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Froebel's Gifts
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Story of Waitstill Baxter
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Bluebeard; a musical fantasy
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Irish Experiences
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
A Village Stradivarius
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach
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 Cathedral Courtship
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Flag-Raising
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Marm Lisa
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The quilt of happiness; Creeping Jenny; and other New England stories
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Keltaisen talon lapset
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Polly Oliver's Problem
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Susanna and Sue
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Rose o' the River
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Robinetta
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay
A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Ladies-In-Waiting
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Affair at the Inn
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay
Homespun Tales
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Story of Patsy
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Girl Scouts: A Training School for Womanhood
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
About the author
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856–1923) was an American author and educator best known for her influential books for children. Born in Philadelphia, she moved with her family to California, where she helped establish one of the first free kindergartens in San Francisco in 1878.
Her literary career included The Story of Patsy, The Birds’ Christmas Carol, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Mother Carey’s Chickens. Her stories often paired lively, memorable children with themes of kindness, resilience, imagination, and the importance of education.
Wiggin later lived and worked in both the United States and England. Through her writing and her pioneering work in early childhood education, she helped shape the development of American children’s literature.