Susan Coolidge Books in Order

In a snowy Black Forest cottage, Max and Thekla strike a magical bargain with Father Time and the twelve months. Each visit brings a new story, turning the book into a playful chain of fairy tales and lessons.

Tomboyish twelve-year-old Katy Carr dreams of doing something grand in her Ohio home. After a terrible accident leaves her bedridden, she has to learn patience, kindness, and a very different kind of courage.

Restless after years at home, Katy and Clover are sent to a strict boarding school in Hillsover. New friends, school rules, and one painful injustice test Katy's temper and the sisters' loyalty.

A collection of children's stories built around home life, holidays, and little everyday upsets. The title piece brings warmth and comic trouble, while the other tales mix sweetness, mischief, and gentle lessons.

This collection gathers nine stories about children, families, and the small troubles that feel enormous when you're young. Some tales are funny, some tender, but all watch closely as children learn kindness and self-command.

A leisurely collection meant for unhurried reading, with stories and sketches suited to long quiet hours. It carries the same domestic warmth and child-centered charm that run through much of Coolidge's shorter fiction.

Bright-eyed Eyebright is full of imagination, mischief, and stubborn good cheer. When family hardship and a move to a lonely island change her days, she has to meet loneliness and responsibility without losing her spark.

As editor, Susan Coolidge presents selections from Frances Burney's journals and correspondence. The volume opens a vivid window onto literary life, court life, and the sharp observations of one of the eighteenth century's great diarists.

Sent to Guernsey to live with relatives, young Lily arrives in the middle of an old family feud. Her warmth and honesty slowly soften long-set grudges in this gentle story about reconciliation and belonging.

A poetry collection that ranges from light occasional poems to more reflective pieces. It shows the lyrical side of Susan Coolidge alongside the warm, accessible tone readers know from her fiction.

Susan Coolidge takes the familiar nursery-rhyme name and spins it into a fuller children's story. It has the light, playful feel of an old-fashioned tale, with a small hero at its center and everyday trouble turned into adventure.

Shy Candace Arden leaves her quiet Connecticut home for a summer with richer cousins in Newport. The trip brings new manners, new expectations, and a tender coming-of-age story about keeping hold of your true self.

Shy Candace Arden leaves her quiet Connecticut home for a summer with richer cousins in Newport. The trip brings new manners, new expectations, and a tender coming-of-age story about keeping hold of your true self.

A very small book with a very small subject, this follows the rhythms, discoveries, and comforts of a baby's ordinary day. Feeding, play, and bedtime become a warm portrait for young readers and grown-ups alike.

When family friends invite Katy to Europe, she leaves Burnet for steamers, pensions, and a much bigger world. Travel brings delight and freedom, but it also asks her to imagine the kind of adult life she wants.

Coolidge steps away from fiction here to trace Philadelphia from its founding forward in a clear, readable historical sketch. It is a concise introduction to the city's people, milestones, and growth.

With Katy married, Clover steps into the foreground as change ripples through the Carr family. A journey west to Colorado opens new friendships, new responsibilities, and the possibility of love.

This is a story collection rather than a single novel, gathering tales about girls, families, work, and small moral crossroads. The pieces range from domestic comedy to fairy tale, all with Coolidge's gentle eye for character.

A late Susan Coolidge novel about two girls whose friendship and contrasting temperaments shape the story. It stays close to the everyday pressures of growing up, where small decisions matter just as much as dramatic ones.

This final Katy book shifts to Colorado, where family life, ranch work, and mountain landscapes shape a new chapter. As old friends and new arrivals build lives together, love, illness, and home-making come to the front.

A reflective volume arranged for daily reading, blending scripture, poems, and short passages of comfort. It feels less like a storybook than a companion for quiet moments throughout the year.

A companion volume to *Verses*, this gathers more poems in the same readable, graceful mode. The pieces vary in mood, but stay close to home, memory, faith, and everyday feeling.

Thirteen stories, despite the title, move between fairy tale, family story, and moral sketch. Snowy cottages, children in trouble, and flashes of wonder give the whole collection a cozy, fireside storytelling feel.

Here Coolidge writes directly for younger readers, mixing playful rhymes with story-like ballads. The collection is lively and musical, with a strong storytelling streak throughout.

The title story follows Barbara Allen, called Barberry, as family illness and money troubles leave her with an old house to save. The rest of the book adds more stories about girls meeting practical trouble with courage and imagination.

Another short-story collection, this one follows children and teenagers through tests of judgment, luck, and character. The tone stays light on its feet, but the stories keep asking how young people learn to act well.

After her mother's death, Georgie Talcott faces the blunt question of how to support herself. It is a compact, sympathetic story about work, pride, and a young woman's determination to stand on her own.

Amy, Sophy, and Margaret Grenell have never been much use at running their father's household. When he announces a remarriage, the three sisters are forced to grow up fast and rethink the selfish routines they took for granted.

Published posthumously, this gathers a final bundle of Susan Coolidge's shorter fiction. The stories stay close to children, households, and moral turning points, with the same easy warmth that marks her earlier collections.

Published after Coolidge's death, this final poetry collection gathers later poems shaped by tenderness, faith, and memory. It feels quieter and more reflective than her earlier verse books.