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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

1856–1923

Best known for creating Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, this American author wrote warm, lively stories for children and adults that still feel inviting today. She also helped pioneer kindergarten education in the United States, bringing the same mix of imagination and care to her work beyond fiction.

40 Audiobooks

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Diary of a Goose Girl

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

New Chronicles of Rebecca

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Ladies-In-Waiting

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Girl and the Kingdom

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten

by Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Birds' Christmas Carol

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Birds' Christmas Carol

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Story of Waitstill Baxter

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Mother Carey's Chickens

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Rose o' the River

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Penelope's Irish Experiences

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Froebel's Gifts

by Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Story of Patsy

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Romance of a Christmas Card

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Village Watch-Tower

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Affair at the Inn

by Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Homespun Tales

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Girl Scouts: A Training School for Womanhood

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

A Cathedral Courtship

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Susanna and Sue

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Timothy's Quest

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The quilt of happiness; Creeping Jenny; and other New England stories

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Polly Oliver's Problem

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Robinetta

by Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Penelope's English Experiences

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers: A Story for Girls in Half-A-Dozen Chapters

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Penelope's Experiences in Scotland

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Marm Lisa

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Penelope's Progress

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

A Cathedral Courtship

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Bluebeard; a musical fantasy

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Penelope's Postscripts

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Flag-Raising

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

A Village Stradivarius

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Villiruusu

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Keltaisen talon lapset

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

About the author

Born in Philadelphia in 1856, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin became one of the most widely read American writers of her era. She spent part of her childhood in Maine, a landscape that later helped shape the New England settings and spirited young characters in her fiction.

Before literary fame, she worked in education and helped found what is widely described as the first free kindergarten in San Francisco. That early commitment to children’s learning stayed with her throughout her career, and she also wrote books and essays connected to early childhood education.

Wiggin is remembered above all for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and other stories marked by humor, energy, and affection for everyday life. She continued publishing novels, stories, and memoir-like writing into the early twentieth century, and she died in 1923, leaving behind books that remained popular with generations of readers.