The Old Peabody Pew. by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Children's Classics)

The Old Peabody Pew. by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Children's Classics)
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2016-03-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530635146

Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of lawyer Robert N. Smith, and of Welsh descent.[1][2] Kate herself experienced a happy childhood, even though it was coloured by the American Civil War and her father's death. Kate and her sister Nora were still quite young when their widowed mother moved her little family from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, then, three years later, upon her remarriage, to the little village of Hollis. There Kate matured in rural surroundings, with her sister and her new baby brother, Philip.

The Old Peabody Pew

The Old Peabody Pew
Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Old Peabody Pew is a play by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. Essentially a Christmas romance; where the country church of Buxton plays a pivotal role in bringing people together.

The Old Peabody Pew

The Old Peabody Pew
Author: Kate Douglas Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2017-12-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781981390137

Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor.

The Birds

The Birds
Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1888
Genre: Brothers and sisters
ISBN:

This classic Christmas story by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm features a child as memorable and charitable as Dickens

The Old Peabody Pew (Esprios Classics)

The Old Peabody Pew (Esprios Classics)
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781006314919

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty (1883), The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

The Old Peabody Pew (1907) by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Old Peabody Pew (1907) by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530730780

THE OLD PEABODY PEW (1907) A Christmas Romance of a Country Church1907 Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour.

The True Gift

The True Gift
Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439156174

Experience the magic of authentic giving in this holiday classic from the Newbery Award–winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall. All year long Lily and Liam look forward to the holidays at their grandparents’ farm. It’s always the perfect trip: walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in the meadow, things will be different. This holiday, Lily and Liam will find out the meaning of a special gift. This holiday classic from a beloved author rings in the season by celebrating the joys of family, community, and true giving.

The Big Book of Classics for the Long Winter

The Big Book of Classics for the Long Winter
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 6681
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Christmas collection: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Twelve Days of Christmas The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Christmas Angel (A. Brown) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White...