Barbara Follett, was born March 4, 1914, to parents who both wrote. Barbara herself was a child literary prodigy, She had a book published by Alfred Knopf, A House Without Windows, and Eepersip’s Life There (1927). The book was reviewed favorably by the New York Times and the Saturday Review of Literature . She was 14 years old. Here is some of her unpublished writing, from a letter made available on a web site dedicated to her life: www.farsolia.org I have now started a story about kittens, and the most important character is Verbiny the princess who found the mother-cat in the woods, caught her, and tamed her. One of the four kittens had a black back arched up like a kangaroo rat’s, and at the top of each white stocking was a band of yellow. All the kittens catch little crickets and grasshoppers, and one of the kittens catches a bay mouse, and a kitten named Citrolane catches two sparrows, one with each paw. But just a little while after ...
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