author
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
1856–1923
Best known for the classic children’s novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, she brought warmth, humor, and a real feel for childhood to her stories. She was also a pioneering educator who helped establish free kindergartens on the American West Coast.
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
New Chronicles of Rebecca
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Village Watch-Tower
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
Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Diary of a Goose Girl
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Froebel's Gifts
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
Penelope's English Experiences Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Penelope's Irish Experiences
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Story of Waitstill Baxter
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
Bluebeard; a musical fantasy
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
The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A Village Stradivarius
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
A Cathedral Courtship
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Polly Oliver's Problem
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Susanna and Sue
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Flag-Raising
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Keltaisen talon lapset
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
Rose o' the River
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Affair at the Inn
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay
The quilt of happiness; Creeping Jenny; and other New England stories
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1856, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin grew up in Maine and later moved to California, where she became deeply involved in early childhood education. In San Francisco, she helped launch the first free kindergartens on the Pacific coast and worked to train kindergarten teachers, making education a central part of her life before and alongside her writing.
Her fiction often drew on her understanding of children and family life, blending lively humor with sympathy and moral warmth. She is most closely associated with Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), a book that has remained her best-known work, but she also wrote other novels, stories, and verse for both children and adults.
Wiggin spent much of her career balancing literary success with public-minded work, and her books helped shape a lasting image of spirited, resilient childhood in American literature. She died in 1923 in England, leaving behind a body of work that still feels energetic, affectionate, and easy to love.