A Summer in a Canyon

Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour.

A Summer in a Cañon is one of the works of the great American educator and author Kate Douglas Wiggin, its moving plots and abundant literatural intension has attracted readers of all over the world and has been translated into several other lauguages.

Set in a beautiful California canyon, Camp Chaparral is as glorious as its young inhabitants can make it - with bedrooms of bright canvas, a game room, and a "sky parlour" high in a tree. Bell, Poly and Margery explore the woods, while their brothers, cousins and friends Geoffrey, Philip and Jack are out fishing and cavorting . . . but Little Dicky Where has he disappeared - ?