书名：What Katy Did凯蒂做了什么

读者对象：9-11岁
作者：Susan Coolidge
出版社名称：Alma Classics
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9781847496072
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：246 （以实物为准）

12岁的“假小子”凯蒂梦想成为一位成熟的女性，可以做大事，体验冒险的生活。喜欢恶作剧的她，却常常使家人苦恼不已。然而，因为一场从秋千摔下来的意外，凯蒂的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。面对身体的残疾，凯蒂渐渐学会了耐心和不轻易言弃的品质，用幽默去化解在生活中遇到的种种困难。

What Katy Did《凯蒂做了什么》自出版以来，一直是儿童读物的经典，温暖了许多人的内心。这本书告诉我们，拥有幽默感和坚韧不拔的精神是非常重要的，可以帮助我们克服生活中的各种难题。本书的插图由Susan Hellard绘制，书末附有作者（The Writer）、书籍（The Book）、角色（The Character）等的详细介绍，以及一篇单项选择题（Test Yourself），以检测小读者是否真正理解了全书的内容。

An accidental fall from the swing seems to threaten Katy's hopes for the future, but she struggles to overcome her difficulties with good humour and vitality. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Susan Hellard and contains extra material for young readers and fun activities.

Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and adventures. She is however prone to mischief, and leads her six siblings into various scrapes, much to the annoyance of her kindly father and domineering aunt. Her life is turned upside down by a terrible accident, which leaves her a bedridden invalid. Now she is forced to learn the virtues of patience, sacrifice and hopefulness, as she comes to terms with her disability.

A heart-warming tale that has become a children's classic since its publication in 1872, Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did is a lesson in the value of good humour and perseverance against the odds for young readers. Beautifully illustrated by Susan Hellard, this is a poignant and timeless story that every child should read.

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), an American children's author who resided for most of her life in New England. She is best known for the classic children's novel What Katy Did, in which the fictional Carr family was modeled after her own.

I WAS SITTING IN THE MEADOWS one day not long ago, at a place where there was a small brook. It was a hot day. The sky was very blue, and white clouds, like great swans, went floating over it to and fro. Just opposite me was a clump of green rushes, with dark velvety spikes, and among them one single tall, red cardinal flower, which was bending over the brook as if to see its own beautiful face in the water. But the cardinal did not seem to be vain.

The picture wasso pretty that I sat a long time enjoying it. Suddenly, close to me, two small voices began to talk — or to sing, for I couldn’t tell exactly which it was. One voice was shrill; the other, which was a little deeper, sounded very positive and cross. They were evidently disputing about something, for they said the same words over and over again. These were the words — “Katy did.”“Katy didn’t.”“She did.”“She didn’t.”“She did.”“She didn’t.”“Did.”“Didn’t.” I think they must have repeated them at least a hundred times.
I got from my seat to see if I could find the speakers and, sure enough, there on one of the cat-tail bulrushes I spied two tiny pale-green creatures. Their eyes seemed to be weak, for they both wore black goggles. They had six legs apiece — two short ones, two not so short and two very long. These last legs had joints like the springs to buggy tops; and as I watched, they began walking tip the rush, and then I saw that they moved exactly like an old-fashioned gig. In fact, if I hadn’t been too big, I think I should have heard them creak as they went along. They didn’t say anything so long as I was there, hut the moment my back was turned they began to quarrel again, and in thesame old words: “Katy did.”“Katy didn’t.”“She did.”“She didn’t.”
As I walked home I fell to thinking about another Katy — a Katy I once knew, who planned to do a great many wonderful things and in the end did none of them, but something quite different — something she didn’t like at all at first, hut which, on the whole, was a great deal better than any of the doings she had dreamt about.