Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsEleven year old Rebecca Rowena Randall travels to Riverboro, Maine, to live with her spinster aunts, Jane and Miranda Sawyer. Her father has been dead for three years and her mother is unable to cope with her brood of seven growing children. Rebecca is being sent to her aunts' farm to try to improve her prospects in life and also ease the family's burden. The aunts had actually wanted her older and more placid sister, Hannah, who is more handy round the house to be sent, but Rebecca's mother sends the dreamy, more imaginative Rebecca instead.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin was published in 1903. The fictional town of Riverboro is based on Hollis, Maine, where the author herself spent her childhood. Kate Douglas Wiggin's life took a monumental turn with a chance encounter – her unexpected meeting with Charles Dickens on a train when she was 11 years old. She engaged the famous author in a lively chat that she later described in a memoir A Child's Journey with Dickens published in 1912. She began writing to supplement the family income and achieved great success with many of her books and stories. She wrote for both children and adults and some of her works included scholarly non-fiction on education and child rearing. However, she is best known for her classic children's books like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Mother Carey's Chickens and Rose o' the River. She was also a talented musician and is credited with several melodious compositions.
This book has much in common with another book written two years later, one which is equally famous and loved by children the world over – Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Though Anne's story continued over eleven more books, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was followed by just one sequel written by Wiggin, The New Chronicles of Rebecca. A distant cousin of her husband's, Eric Wiggin, wrote a few more Rebecca books in the 1990's and also updated the original.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm traces the heroine's growth and maturity from an impulsive, carefree child into a responsible, mature young woman, who is able to use her imaginative gifts wisely and profitably.
The book was adapted for the stage by the author herself in 1909 and filmed several times. The most popular film version has Shirley Temple playing Rebecca. More than a hundred years after it first came out, the book remains a firm favorite with children and adults the world over. A great addition to your collection of classic children's books!
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Episodes
02 – Rebecca’s Relations
January 01, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 – A Difference In Hearts
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – Rebecca’s Point Of View
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 8 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 – Wisdom’s Ways
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – Sunshine in a Shady Place
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 – Riverboro Secrets
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
08 – Color of Rose
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 – Ashes of Roses
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 – Rainbow Bridges
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 – The Stirring of the Powers
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 – See the Pale Martyr
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – Snow-White; Rose-Red
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
15 – The Banquet Lamp
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
16 – Seasons Of Growth
December 18, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
17 – Gray Days And Gold
December 17, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
18 – Rebecca Represents The Family
December 16, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
19 – Deacon Israel’s Successor
December 15, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
20 – A Change of Heart
December 14, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
21 – The Sky Line Widens
December 13, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
22 – Clover Blossoms and Sunflowers
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 9.54 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
23 – The Hill Difficulty
December 11, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
24 – Aladdin Rubs His Lamp
December 10, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
26 – Over the Teacups
December 08, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
27 – The Vision Splendid
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
28 – Th’ Inevitable Yoke
December 06, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
29 – Mother and Daughter
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
30 – Good-Bye, Sunnybrook
December 04, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
31 – Aunt Miranda’s Apology
December 03, 2023 00:00 - 8 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com