Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics)
AuthorJack Londonwrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classicRebecca of  Sunnybrook Farmfrom the headquarters of the First Japanese  Army in Manchuria in 1904: "May I thank you forRebecca?... I would have quested the wide world over to  make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but  yesterday.... Why could she not have been my daughter? Why  couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of  soap? Why, O, why?"Mark TwaincalledRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"beautiful and warm and  satisfying."Who is this beguiling creature? The irrepressible 10-year-old  Rebecca Rowena Randall burst into the world of children's book  characters (and her new life in Maine) in 1903 when storybook  girls were gentle and proper. A "bird of a very different  feather," she had "a small, plain face illuminated by a  pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints  of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking  into their shining depths.... " Soon enough, she wins over  her prim Aunt Miranda, the whole town, and thousands of readers  everywhere with her energetic, indomitable spirit. This beautiful  trade edition features the artwork ofRebecca of Sunnybrook  Farm's original illustrator Helen Mason Grose, with 6 full- color plates and 32 pen-and-ink drawings.(Ages 9 and  older)--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.