About the Book

Like Watership Down and The Education of Little Tree, this lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching journal kept by a six-year-old girl living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century is a book that will appeal to all ages. "Enchanting . . . Opal transforms bleak and loveless circumstances into a life-affirming fable".--San Francisco Chronicle.

Book Synopsis

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).