Opal Whiteley
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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).
