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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Fiction, Historical, United States, People & Places, Readers - Chapter Books
Hardcover
FamilyGeneral Juvenile FictionHistory
ISBN13: 9781598183603
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Jul 1 2006
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The novel opens with Rebecca's journey to Riverboro, to live with her two aunts, Miranda and Jane Sawyer. Until this time, she has lived on the family farm. Rebecca is the second eldest of seven children.The family is quite poor, due to the number of children, Mr. Randall's inability to stick to a job and the farm being mortgaged.
Shirley Temple did a lot to make Rebecca famous when she won the world's heart in the movie we all remember. But the story is more than Temple, the film, or our memory of it: this is the tale of the little showgirl who, sent to the country to live with prim and proper relatives, is forbidden to do anything, well, showy. But Rebecca has other ideas, of course, and you know she'll win over the hearts and minds of everyone who'll see her show. . . . Certainly she won over Jack London. In 1904 he wrote to Wiggin herself: May I thank you for Rebecca. . . ? 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? And Mark Twain, too: he described Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as beautiful and warm and satisfying.
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