I DON'T CARE WHAT KATY DID.
- Mom: iBooks~! I'm going to download!! -singsong voice-
- Me: What?
- Mom: 'What Katy Did Next'
- Me: But we have 'What Katy Did Next'!
- Mom: No, we have 'What Katy Did at School'
- Me: NO. We have 'What Katy Did' and 'What Katy Did NEXT'
- Mom: No we have 'What Katy Did' and 'What Katy Did at School'
- Me: -walks over to bookshelf to read the book spine- SEE!! 'What. Katy. Did. NEXT'
- Mom: oh. then...-singsong voice again- I'm going to download 'What Katy Did at School'~
“Then all these things would slip away again, and she would drop off into a dark place, where there was nothing but pain, and sleep, which made her forget pain, and so seemed the best thing in the world.”
—Susan Coolidge
(via Shelley Healy)
New Every Morning - Susan Coolidge
I have dusted off my Poem for the Day book and am going to type up the ones I really like as I go through it.
January 1st’s poem is New Every Morning by Susan Coolidge.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Listen my soul to the glad refrain.
And, spite of old sorrows
And older sinning,
Troubles forecasted
And possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again
- Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did, etc, by Susan Coolidge
I just finished rereading the trifecta of “What Katy Did”, “What Katy Did At School,” and “What Katy Did Next,” all by Susan Coolidge. Look I GREW UP ON HILARIOUSLY MORALISTIC OLD KIDS’ BOOKS and find them desperately charming and I AM STILL TOTES IN LOVE WITH WHAT KATY DID. The sequels aren’t quite as good but once you start you can’t stop, you know?
spoilers for What Katy Did (but not the sequels) behind the “read more”
“Whenever she stopped to think about her height she became very awkward, and felt as if she were all legs and elbows, and angles and joints.”
—Susan Coolidge
(via )
“The sky was very blue, and white clouds, like great swans, went floating over it to and fro.”
—Susan Coolidge
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