author
Sarah Cory Rippey
Best known for charming early 20th-century children’s books, this writer is remembered for playful moral tales that showed both good behavior and bad. Her work also reached beyond storybooks through contributions to a practical guide on home life.
1 Audiobook
The Goody-Naughty Book
by Sarah Cory Rippey
About the author
Sarah Cory Rippey was an American author associated with children’s literature in the early 1900s. Public-domain and library records link her most clearly to The Goody-Naughty Book, a back-to-back story collection that contrasts polite, thoughtful behavior with mischievous or irritable conduct.
She is also credited as a contributor to The Complete Home, a household management and home-design guide edited by Clara E. Laughlin. Some library and audiobook catalogs list her as active around 1915, which fits the publication history of the works that are easiest to confirm.
Reliable biographical detail about her life appears to be limited in the sources readily available online, so a fuller personal profile is hard to confirm with confidence. What does stand out is her place in a style of children’s writing that mixed gentle instruction with humor and memorable situations.