The Gate of the Giant Scissors
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Annie Fellows Johnston
- Annie
- Fellows
- Johnston
- (1863-1931)
- was
- an
- American
- author
- of
- juvenile
- fiction,
- most
- well-known
- for
- the
- Little
- Colonel
- series,
- the
- first
- book
- of
- which
- was
- made
- into
- a
- 1935
- movie
- starring
- Shirley
- Temple,
- Bill
- "Bojangles"
- Robinson
- and
- Lionel
- Barrymore.
- Johnston
- based
- her
- characters
- on
- friends
- and
- family,
- many
- of
- whom
- appear
- in
- several
- different
- series.
- Her
- semi-biographical
- characters
- include
- The
- Old
- Colonel,
- Mom
- Beck,
- Papa
- Jack,
- Mrs
- Sherman,
- Aunt
- Allison,
- and
- the
- Waltons.
- Her
- first
- novel,
- Big
- Brother
- was
- published
- in
- 1894
- followed
- by
- The
- Little
- Colonel
- (1895),
- and
- 13
- novels
- in
- the
- Little
- Colonel
- series.
- Other
- works
- include;
- Ole
- Mammy's
- Torment
- (1897),
- Two
- Little
- Knights
- of
- Kentucky
- (1899),
- The
- Story
- of
- Dago
- (1900),
- The
- Quilt
- that
- Jack
- Built
- (1905),
- The
- Legend
- of
- the
- Bleeding-Heart
- (1907),
- The
- Rescue
- of
- the
- Princess
- Winsome
- (1908)
- and
- Georgina
- of
- the
- Rainbows (1916).
