What Katy Did thrilled Jacqueline Wilson when she was growing up but the attitudes to disability left something to be desired. And that’s why the author of Tracey Beaker and Hetty Feather has written a modern version: Katy
We have five signed copies of Jacqueline Wilson’s Katy to give away
I first read What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge when I was eight years old. It was one of my all time favourite books. I reread it at least 10 times during my childhood – and when my daughter Emma was eight I read it to her too. She could obviously read it for herself by that age, but it was fun to share it. She loved it too.
It’s a wonderful book, very easy to read, even though it was published in the 19th century. It’s a very lively funny story about six children, looked after by their kindly doctor father and an exasperated maiden aunt.
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