What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes but wishing to be beautiful and beloved. When a terrible accident makes her an invalid, her illness and four-year recovery gradually teach her to be as good and kind as she has always wanted.
The most recent film adaptation saw Alison Pill, Michael Cera and Megan Follows (‘Anne of Green Gables’), and the book has made its mark on popular culture too, lending its name to a The Libertines song and two episodes of the hit show ...
What Katy Did Katy #1 by Susan Coolidge What Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge.
'What Katy did at school' is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls' boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials, adventures and scrapes are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gently ironic good humour.
Reproduction of the original: What Katy did next by Susan Coolidge
The fictional Carr family of this series was modeled after Woolsey's own family and the protagonist Katy Carr was inspired by Woolsey herself; while the brothers and sisters "Little Carrs" were modeled on her four younger siblings.
We don't go up into the loft half so much as we used to when you ware at home. Mrs. Worrett came to dinner last week. She says she ways two hundred and atey pounds. I should think it would be dredful to way that. I only way 76.
John Branston chronicles the short, incandescent life of his extraordinary daughter, Katy: a life of achievement, dramatic successes, lives touched, and ultimate defeat in her battle with depression.
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* TRILOGY - Three of American author Susan Coolidge's "Katy Series" books are in this trilogy: What Katy Did (1872), What Katy Did at School (1873) and What Katy Did Next (1886)What Katy Did Katy, a 12-year-old tomboy, is always finding ...
The books were frequently reprinted and all are available online. Coolidge modeled Katy on her own childhood self, and the other 'Little Carrs' on her brothers and sisters.