The fact that Shona is adopted is not mentioned in the story but Jackie includes it in a letter to her readers at the end of the book. “In Coorie Doon, I imagine Shona has also been adopted and is ...
One day in the autumn of 1897 little Virginia O'Hanlon (1889–1971), who lived in New York City and who was eight years old, had an argument with some of her schoolmates about Santa Claus. Virginia ...