Kate Douglas Wiggin

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia on September 28, 1856. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878. Whe was also a writer of children's books, the best know being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

Kate Wiggin died on Aug. 24, 1923 at Harrow, Middlesex, England.

External Links

• The Birds' Christmas Carol (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2586)
• Bluebeard (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2587)
• A Cathedral Courtship (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2588)
• The Diary Of A Goose Girl (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2589)
• The Flag-Raising (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=693)
• Homespun Tales (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2590)
• Marm Lisa (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2591)
• New Chronicles of Rebecca (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2592)
• The Old Peabody Pew (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2593)
• Penelope's English Experiences (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2594)
• Penelope's Experiences in Scotland (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2595)
• Penelope's Irish Experiences (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2596)
• Penelope's Postscripts (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2597)
• Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1945)
• Rose O' the River (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2598)
• Story Of Waitstill Baxter (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2599)
• A Summer In A Canyon (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2600)
• A Village Stradivarius (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2601)
• The Village Watch-Tower (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2602)