Tea with an old dragon
Subtitle: a story of Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College
By: by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Monica Vachula ; foreword by Ruth J. Simmons.
Contributors: Vachula, Monica, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pa
Language: eng
Subjects: Smith, Sophia, 1796-1870 -- Juvenile fiction; Smith, Sophia, 1796-1870 -- Fiction; Smith College -- Fiction; Behavior -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Old age -- Fiction; Education -- Fiction; Hatfield (Mass.) -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In Hatfield, Massachusetts, in 1867, five-year-old Louisa determines to find the old dragon she has heard about, but instead encounters, and has tea with, Sophia Smith, an elderly woman with pronounced views on the education of girls.