Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did at School (1873) What’s better than a boarding school story? Nothing much. Even though the fictional Katy and her beloved sister Clover weren’t especially fond of the idea of being sent away (too much responsibility at home was making them grow too serious,
Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did (1872) Susan Coolidge was the pen name of author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, whose Katy series is her best known work, What Katy Didbeing the first of that series. Do you know Katy Carr?[You might also recognize the name of her niece, author Gamel Woolsey, whose
Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi in the South Seas (1959) Trans. Gerry Bothmer Illus. Louis S. Glanzman Pippi kicks ass. Really. She stands out. Sure, a lot of the heroines I’ve been spending time with this summer are spunky. S’why I liked them. Whether it was Ramoma adding whiskers and a tail
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Goes on Board (1946) Trans. Florence Laborn Illus. Louis S. Glanzman Viking Press, 1957 Here’s how our heroine introduces herself: “My name’s Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim’s Daughter Longstocking, daughter of Captain Edraim Longstocking, formerly the Terror of the Sea, now a cannibal King. But everybody calls me Pippi.”
Sydney Taylor's Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family (1978) Illus. Meryl Rosner This (and the third) volumes of Sydney Taylor's series are stories that I've come to for the first time as an adult reader. Which was fine with the third volume: I think I enjoyed it as much as I would
