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Katy Carr is grown up now. In the first books about her, she was a lively girl who learned to be patient. In this book, a kind friend invites Katy to spend a whole year travelling in Europe. She sees England, France, Switzerland and Italy. She looks at famous paintings, climbs hills, makes new friends, and slowly finds a love story of her own. If you have ever dreamed of a big trip, this book is for you.
Katy Carr, grown up and recovered from the accidents of her girlhood, is invited to spend a year travelling through Europe with a kind older friend. She visits England, France, Switzerland and Italy, sees famous cities and paintings, and enjoys the small adventures of the road. Along the way she makes a deep new friendship, and a gentle love story grows quietly out of the journey, changing what Katy wants from the rest of her life.
Susan Coolidge built the book as a travel story: one long trip, told in order, country by country. She had made such a journey herself, so the trains, hotels and galleries feel real. The chapters mix sightseeing with story, so you are learning Europe while you follow Katy, and the love story is threaded lightly through the whole trip rather than piled up at the end.
It works because Katy herself is such good company: sensible, cheerful and interested in everything. The book lets a beloved heroine finish growing up in front of you, which was rare when it was written. It gives young readers a whole continent to dream about, shown by someone who plainly loved it.
What Katy Did Next, published in 1886, is the third of Susan Coolidge's Katy books. Katy Carr, now grown up, spends a year travelling through England, France, Switzerland and Italy, with new friendships, beautiful places and, woven quietly through the journey, a love story of her own. Coolidge wrote from her own travels, and it shows. Katy lasts because she is sensible, warm-hearted and believable, one of the first girls in fiction allowed to grow up in full view.
What Katy Did Next, published in 1886, is the third of Susan Coolidge's Katy books, following What Katy Did and What Katy Did at School. Katy Carr, now grown up, is invited to travel: a year in Europe with a companion, taking in England, France, Switzerland and Italy, with new friendships, beautiful places and, quietly woven through the journey, a love story of her own. Coolidge wrote from her own European travels, and the book has the freshness of a real itinerary honestly observed, the pleasures and small disasters of the road recorded by someone who had actually been there and paid attention.
Starvard carries this book because the Katy series is one of the foundations of girls' fiction, and readers who start with the first book deserve to finish the journey. Katy lasts because she herself lasts: sensible, warm-hearted and believable, she was one of the first girls in fiction allowed to grow up in full view of her readers, and this is the volume where the growing up completes itself. Anyone who loved the earlier books, young travellers dreaming of Europe, and readers who like their heroines kind without being dull will all be glad to pack her bag.
Edition: Text: Project Gutenberg ebook 8995.
The first chapter
WHAT KATY DID NEXT
Title: What Katy Did Next
Author: Susan Coolidge
Release date: September 1, 2005 [eBook #8995]
Most recently updated: January 2, 2021
Language: English
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WHAT KATY DID NEXT
BY
SUSAN COOLIDGE
frontispiece
[She paid a visit to the little garden. FRONTISPIECE.]
This Story is Dedicated
TO
THE MANY LITTLE GIRLS
(SOME OF THEM GROWN TO BE GREAT GIRLS NOW),
Who, during the last twelve years, have begged that something more might be told them about KATY CARR, and what she did after leaving school.
Source: Project Gutenberg. Published 1886. Author died 1905. Public domain. Share this book: WhatsApp
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