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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Plantation has delighted viewers for over a century. Released in 1903, when young girls were inevitably depicted as quite, mild and proper, Rebecca Rowena Randall burst onto the landscape of children's literature. Sent to live with her prim and proper Aunt Miranda, who's expecting her a lot more demure sister, Rebecca is a "parrot of an extremely different feather". She has "a little, plain face lighted by a pair of eyes transporting such emails, such ideas, such ideas of sleeping electricity and insight, any particular one never tired of looking at their glowing depths...." To her Aunt Miranda's continual dismay, Rebecca is exuberant, irrepressible, and spirited - not at all "proper" or "demure". She is victorious over her aunt quickly enough, and the complete town, and thousands of viewers and listeners all over the place. In 1904, publisher Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin: "May I thank you for Rebecca?.... I would have quested the large world over to make her mine, only I was created too long earlier and she was created but last night.... Why could she not need been my little girl? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" And Draw Twain called Rebecca of Sunnybrook Plantation "beautiful and warm and satisfying". This taking, narrated by Ann Richardson, whose special speech has a service for accents and persona voices, is a satisfying listening experience you'll want to revisit. Upcoming from Post Hypnotic Press is a fresh annotated printing/eBook edition of this reserve, with illustrations from the initial publication and a fresh introduction, and a work-book for children.
