Flower Fables - Dover Children's Classics First Edition, First edition

Jacket Description/Back: The author of "Little Women" possessed a special gift for capturing children's imaginations, and she wrote these fairy tales when she was just sixteen years old. Louisa May Alcott created the fanciful stories for the amusement of the daughter of a family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Populated by elves, brownies, and other supernatural creatures, the fables conclude with memorable lessons for young readers about the power of love and kindness and the importance of responsibility. In "The Frost King," steadfast Violet approaches the fearsome ruler of winter in order to bring warmth and sunshine to the flowers back home. "Lily-Bell and Thistledown" recounts a wayward spirit's attempts to reform; and "Ripple, the Water-Spirit" tells of the sacrifice and rewards involved in keeping a promise. These and six additional stories and poems are accompanied by charmingly evocative illustrations. Dover (2015) republication of the edition published by the Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, 1898. See every Dover book in print atwww.doverpublications.comBiographical Note: Louisa May Alcott (1832 88) is best remembered as the author of "Little Women" and other popular, idealistic literature for young adults. In addition to "Hospital Sketches, " an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, DC, she wrote novels for adults that addressed such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage."Marc Notes: This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is a newly reset, unabridged republication of the work originally published by Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1898.; Six stories and three poems relate the adventures of the fairy folk and their friends, the flowers. Brief Description: "This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is a newly reset, unabridged republication of the work originally published by Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1898."Brief Description: Six stories and three poems relate the adventures of the fairy folk and their friends, the flowers. Publisher Marketing: The author of "Little Women" possessed a special gift for capturing children's imaginations, and she wrote these fairy tales when she was justsixteen years old. Louisa May Alcott created the fanciful stories for the amusement of the daughter of a family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Populated by elves, brownies, and other supernatural creatures, the fables conclude with memorable lessons for young readers about the power of love and kindness and the importance of responsibility. In "The Frost-King," steadfast Violet approaches the fearsome ruler of winter in order to bring warmth and sunshine to the flowers back home. "Lily-Bell and Thistledown" recounts a wayward spirit's attempts to reform; and "Ripple, the Water-Spirit" tells of the sacrifice and rewards involved in keeping a promise. These and six additional stories and poems are accompanied by charmingly evocative illustrations." Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 06/15/1998 pg. 60 (EAN 9780966093308, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Alcott, Louisa May Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888) is a much beloved author of American literature, in particular the Little Women trilogy, centered on the semiautobiographical March family (Little Women, Little Men, and Jo s Boys). Best known in her time for Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, and Little Men, her obituary in the New York Times declared, There was probably no writer among women better loved by the young than she.