What Katy Did is an 1872 children's book which follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes but wishing to be...
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (writing under the pseudonym Susan Coolidge) was a popular American author of kid's books best known for her series of books that follow a young teenage girl named Katy Carr. After the success of the first book, What Katy Did, Coolidge kept writing sequels,...