rebecca of sunnybrook farm by kate douglas wiggin

My 13 years old self would have loved this Novel. What a charming, funny and beautiful read, a simple back to basics story, beautiful prose and a feel good read that suprised me and left me with a lovely warm feeling on completing this novel. “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” is a classic coming of age story that has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen and continues to charm audiences and readers alike with its interesting characters and positive message of finding happiness in life’s simple pleasures. Yet, Rebecca finds love and acceptance with her Aunt Jane and she grows up to be a proper and intelligent young lady who never loses her sunny outlook and kind heart. Rebecca brings her youthful enthusiasm and imagination to their quiet life and often clashes with her stern Aunt Miranda. In order to ease the burden on her widowed mother, Rebecca is sent to live with her lonely aunts at their farm and there she spends the next seven years till she becomes an adult. Rebecca’s father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old.

First published in 1903, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” is the charming and classic children’s novel beloved the world over.

Rebecca of sunnybrook farm by kate douglas wiggin