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Original Title:	The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
ISBN:	0140237208 (ISBN13: 9780140237207)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Oregon(United States)
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (1988)

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow

Opal Whiteley

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 791 Users | 145 Reviews

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Title	:	The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow
Author	:	Opal Whiteley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1976)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Environment. Nature. Biography Memoir

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Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whiteley captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1902, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful, funny, and wise, it was described by an admirer as "the revelation of the ...life of a feminine Peter Pan of the Oregon wilderness—so innocent, so intimate, so haunting, that I should not know where in all literature to look for a counterpart."But the diary soon fell into disgrace. Condemning it as an adult-written hoax, skeptics stirred a scandal that drove the book into obscurity and shattered the frail spirit of its author.

Discovering the diary by chance, bestselling author Benjamin Hoff set out to solve the longstanding mystery of its origin. His biography of Opal that accompanies the diary provides fascinating proof that the document is indeed authentic—the work of a magically gifted child, America's forgotten interpreter of nature.

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This is one of the most extraordinary books I've ever read. It is the diary of a little girl who was orphaned at the age of five in 1900 and was sent to live in an Oregon logging camp. Her writing is so tender and dear. Her life is hard, and her grammar is her own creation but her words and her perception of the world is exquisite. She tells of being made to spend a day weeding onions by saying that, "My back has hurt feels but the little onions said 'Thank you for giving us more room to grow.'"

The real diary of an unusual and gifted five-year-old living in an Oregon lumber camp in the early 1900s. Her diary was "adapted" by Jane Boulton, but I'm not sure exactly what this "adaptation" consisted of. Boulton says she broke the prose down into free verse, but what else did she do? In any case, this is a fascinating diary and the story behind it is fascinating as well. Opal lived in an unhappy home with an abusive foster mother, and her comfort and escape was in nature. She had many

At M's terse and cryptic recommendation I bought this book on-line. It was delivered to work and, as is her habit, when my friend BV saw it asked 'May I read that please?' She is endlessly fascinated by the books I bring to work, and has read many from my library. And since I was at the time busy reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years, I said 'Okay.'She couldn't put it down, and proceeded to read it twice, back-to-back. It has gone to near the top of her all time favourite books list and BV has

I must be turning into a sentimental old fool, given how much I enjoyed reading this sweet and affecting journal of a little girl in love with the natural world in the backwoods of 1900s Oregon. I ran across this after reading the children's illustrated version Just Opal and wanting to see more of the original journal.Equally intriguing is Opal Whiteley's further story -- the 100-year debate over the authenticity of her journal as a contemporaneous childhood record, over her own ancestry, and

Awful. If I could give this book no stars, I would.

Don't let your sister find your diary.

Opal Whiteley, born in 1897 in the USA, wrote an extraordinary book and was at the heart of an unsolved mystery. Writer Melanie McFadyean explores Whiteley's childhood in an Oregon lumber village and her rise to fame in America, her exotic adventures and many years in British asylum, where she died in 1992. Her gravestone in Highgate Cemetery bears the inscription 'I spake as a child.'Did she speak as a child or was her diary, said to have been written by her aged six or seven, and published in