From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   It's the birthday of Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), author of _Rebecca   
   of Sunnybrook Farm_ (1903). I remember her name from primary school   
   libraries. Her books were still being recommended in the 1950s, though I   
   don't think I ever read one.   
      
   She founded kindergartens for poor children in California.   
      
   I've enjoyed reading to children when the occasion has arisen. But there   
   are none resident in this house. So a couple of years ago I suggested a   
   bedtime story reading to my wife, and she thought that was a nice idea.   
   We started with Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories. (I wanted to re-read   
   it, and thought it would be more fun to share it.) Then we worked our   
   way through a large collection of the Brothers Grimm (in English). We've   
   just finished Kipling's Just-So Stories. I'm not sure what I'll do next.   
   She's often asleep within a few minutes after I start, but that's OK. I   
   enjoy the reading, even without a conscious audience. And she enjoys   
   sleeping.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)