What Katy Did Alan Payne keeping a weather eye out

keeping a weather eye out for telling detail

They write with brutal candour about the heart of human fragility

Declan Ryan

and "found" poems from sources as varied as Diane Arbus

cruelly rejected by her father for refusing to bind her feet

What Katy Did Alan Payne keeping a weather eye outSusan Coolidges What Katy Did has captured the imaginations of readers since its first publication in 1872. A classic of American childrens literature, it tells the story of Katy Carr twelve years old, free spirited, perennially untidy, endearingly awkward and irrepressibly imaginative. Accompanied by her many siblings, Katy embarks on a series of playful misadventures when she can escape the watchful eye of her fussy Aunt Izzie until disaster