The story of Barbara Follett herself is no less interesting. Until now! On this site you'll find the full text of the book for download in a variety of formats. Many people have desired to read it (or own it), but it hasn't been readily available.
The book has been difficult to find for a long time, and currently the rare copies for sale can go for several hundred dollars. But it's one of those books that re-reading allows one to find deeper meanings. At its core, it's the story of a child who decides to "go wild" by running away from her parents and returning to nature to live. It's a somewhat strange book that you might call a nature fantasy. There is much poignant beauty in its descriptions, much that is real poetry in this reflection of an idyllic outer work in the unflecked mirror of a child’s consciousness.” “I think Barbara’s fanciful story is an important contribution to child psychology but, even more, it is an exquisite piece of work which would have been greeted with loud and deserved cheers if it had come from the pen of Walter de la Mare. One closes the book and shuffles about doggedly till one finds the evening paper and smudges down to one’s element.” Weary middle-age and the clear delicacy of a dawn-Utopia, beckoning. But there are moments when, for one reader, this book grows almost unbearably beautiful. And here is little Miss Barbara Follett, holding the long-defended gate wide open and letting us enter and roam at our will over enchanted ground.”
“There can be few who have not at one time or another coveted the secret, innocent and wild at the same time, of a child’s heart. “I don’t know what to call this book, except a miracle.” Given how literate the writing is, it’s not hard to see why. Barbara was declared a child prodigy and was for a time very famous. Knopf Publishing accepted it and it was released to great acclaim. Over the next three years, Barbara painstakingly recreated it, and around this time her father thought that it was so unique that perhaps it should be published.
But just after it was completed and ready for printing, it burned in a fire. Her father originally thought to have a small number of bound copies made for friends. Barbara, a gifted child, wrote the story as a gift to her mother when she was eight years old. In 1927, Barbara Newhall Follett published a book called The House Without Windows & Eepersip's Life There. This site is dedicated to sharing an extraordinary book.
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