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Flower Fables – Louisa May Alcott

We are no longer children, – but it is not long since we were; and remembering that golden time, when the sun was brighter, the flowers twice as many, the rivers larger, and everything fairer, than it ever has been since, we welcome this book of fables for children. The writer of them was herself a girl of sixteen when they were written, – many, many years ago, – and of course their chief charm is for younger people than we venerable undergraduates. And the children (whose judgment is best) declare loudly for the book, and listen pleased for hours to the adventures of Lily-Bell and Thistledown and the kind little Ripple. But others … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Garland For Girls – Louisa May Alcott

A collection of short stories by the famous authoress of classics like ‘Little Women. Each story is woven about the flower from which it takes its name. The lessons of self-sacrifice and kindness to others contained in these stories cannot fail to help the youthful readers, so earnestly are they presented by the author, who has endeared herself to girls.

A Garland For Girls.

Format: eBook.

A Garland For Girls.

ISBN: 9783849659288.

Excerpt from the text:

Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 3 – Louisa May Alcott

This is a collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott, the famous authoress of classics like ‘Little Women.’ Included are ‘Recollections Of My Childhood’, ‘A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came’, ‘The Silver Party’, ‘The Blind Lark’, ‘Music And Macaroni’, ‘The Little Red Purse’ and many more.

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 3.

Format: eBook.

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 3.

ISBN: 9783849659271.

Excerpt from the text:

One of my earliest memories is of playing with books in my father’s study,–building towers and bridges of the big dictionaries, looking at pictures, pretending to read, and scribbling on blank pages whenever pen or pencil could be found. Many of these first attempts … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 2 – Louisa May Alcott

This is a collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott, the famous authoress of classics like ‘Little Women.’ Included are ‘The Frost-King’, ‘Lilybell and Thistledown’, ‘Ripple, the water-sprite’, ‘Eva’s visit to fairyland’, ‘Sunshine, and her brothers and sisters’, ‘The fairy spring’ and many more.

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 2.

Format: eBook.

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 2.

ISBN: 9783849659264.

Excerpt from the text:

The Queen sat upon her throne, and all the fairies from the four kingdoms were gathered for a grand council. A very important question was to be decided, and the bravest, wisest elves were met to see what could be done. The Frost King made war upon … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 1 – Louisa May Alcott

This is a collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott, the famous authoress of classics like ‘Little Women.’ Included are ‘A Christmas Dream’, ‘The Candy Country’, ‘Naughty Jocko, ‘The Skipping Shoes’, ‘Cockyloo’, ‘Rosy’s Journey’, ‘How They Ran Away’, ‘The Fairy Box’, ‘A Hole In The Wall’, ‘The Piggy Girl’ and ‘The Three Frogs.’

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 1.

Format: eBook.

Lulu’s Library Series, Volume 1.

ISBN: 9783849659257.

Excerpt from the text:

“A music-man! a music-man! Run quick, and see if he has got a monkey on his organ,” cried little Neddy, running to the window in a great hurry one day.

Yes; there was the monkey in his blue … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Spinning Wheel Stories – Louisa May Alcott

Miss Alcott’s collection of stories for Christmas was called ‘Spinning Wheel Stories.’ The first story in the book, ‘Grandma’s story’, relates an incident with wolves which happened in New England. Miss Alcott has become an adroit story teller . As one reads the vivid story of this wild race with wolves, he holds his breath with fear, because it seems so real. Into this book Miss Alcotti has gathered a dozen stories. Among them is ‘Onawandah’, an Indian. There is a peculiar charm in Indian stories. ‘Daisy’s Jewel Box’ is another excellent story, but there is no use in making selections because the book is filled with them.

Spinning Wheel Stories.

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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 6) – Louisa May Alcott

“An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving” is number six in the ‘Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag series’ and includes the following stories by famous authoress Louisa May Alcott: ‘ An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving’, ‘How It All Happened’, ‘The Dolls’ Journey From Minnesota To Maine’, ‘Morning – Glories’, ‘Shadow-Children’, ‘Poppy’s Pranks’, ‘What The Swallows Did’, ‘Little Gulliver’ and many more.

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 6).

Format: eBook.

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 6).

ISBN: 9783849659226.

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SIXTY years ago, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a house full of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Proverb Stories – Louisa May Alcott

This is a gathering up into book form of stories previously published in magazines at a time, when the health of the author being such that she was forbidden the work of preparing new ones. There are eight in all, of which only ‘The Baron’s Gloves’ has not before appeared in print. To most of the young folks they are new, and will be greeted with the welcome which is always accorded to anything of Miss Alcott’s. The demand for children’s stories is not likely to grow less in our day, and though it is needless to speak with approval of this author’s work, we will yet say that we may accept the fact … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Jack and Jill: A Village Story – Louisa May Alcott

Merely to intimate that are other stories by Miss Alcott than ‘Little Women’ will be sufficient to set the world of juvenile readers on tip-toe with pleased expectation, and those who are fortunate enough to become the possessors of “Jack and Jill” will surely not be disappointed. If it is not equal to ” Little Women,” it at least surpasses all other stories from the same pen, in that delightfully real manner of painting child-life which has made the author’s name a household word not only in England and America, but in France, where her works have been translated and met with a wide sale. In the days when good … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Jimmy’s Cruise In The Pinafore (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 5) – Louisa May Alcott

“Jimmy’s Cruise In The Pinafore” is number five in the ‘Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag series’ and includes the following stories by famous authoress Louisa May Alcott: ‘Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore’, ‘Two Little Travellers’, ‘A Jolly Fourth’, ‘Seven Black Cats’, Rosa’s Tale’, ‘Lunch’, ‘A Bright Idea’, ‘How they Camped Out’, ‘My Little School-Girl’, ‘What a Shovel Did’, ‘Clams’ and many more.

Jimmy’s Cruise In The Pinafore (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 5).

Format: eBook.

Jimmy’s Cruise In The Pinafore (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 5).

ISBN: 9783849659189.

Excerpt from the text:

A boy sat on a door-step in a despondent attitude, with his eyes fixed on a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...