What Katy Did - Couverture souple

Coolidge, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853261319 ISBN 13 : 9781853261312

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1994

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'

Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is full of schemes and one day she plans to do something important. But a great deal is to happen to Katy before that time comes...

Includes exclusive material: In 'The Backstory' you can find out which character you most resemble and learn how to make a pin cushion.

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of nineteenth-century American author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. Born to wealth, Coolidge worked as a nurse during the Civil War before returning to her family home to take up a career in writing. Although best known for her classic Katy series of children s novels including What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next, Coolidge also published more than twenty works of fiction, and edited The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney and The Diary and Letter of Frances Burney. Coolidge died in 1905.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1853261319
• ISBN 13: 9781853261312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176