Opal Paperback by Opal Whiteley, Adapted by Jane Boulten

Product Details

• Publisher: Potter Style (1995-10-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780517885161
• Item Weight: 243.81 grams
• Dimensions: 21.49 x 13.89 x 1.3 cm

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. 24 black-and-white photographs.

About the Author

Opal Whiteley 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 The Fairyland Around Us, a self-published nature book for children (1918), and her bestselling childhood diary, The Story of Opal (1920).