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Opal - by Opal Whiteley (Paperback)

Opal - by  Opal Whiteley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Like Watership Down and The Education of Little Tree, this lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching journal kept by a six-year-old girl living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century is a book that will appeal to all ages. "Enchanting . . . Opal transforms bleak and loveless circumstances into a life-affirming fable".--San Francisco Chronicle.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. <b>24 black-and-white photographs.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Opal Whiteley</b> grew up in logging settlements near the town of Cottage Grove, at the southern end of Oregon's Willamette Valley. A child literary prodigy and acclaimed nature teacher, she is the author of <i>The Fairyland Around Us</i>, a self-published nature book for children (1918), and her bestselling childhood diary, <i>The Story of Opal </i>(1920).

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