I was on amazon.com today (looking for the Adam West Batman TV show on DVD, which isn’t out yet, but is coming! Soon I hope, but as soon as it does, I will know because I told Amazon to alert me) and came up this little gem of a book, which my grandparents had and I used to read when I went to visit them.
In fact, my earliest memories of Little Women come from this book, which I’m sure my grandmother intended, or at least hoped, would teach me to be a thankful, kind, sharing person (these are, if I remember correctly the themes Little Women is boiled down to for the purposes of this little book). But what surprised me the most about this, and other Little Women books that focus on one girl or on aspect of the girl’s lives, is that they are all credited to Louisa May Alcott. There’s a pretty prominent editor credit, but even though probably nothing in these versions come directly from Little Women, the idea presented is that this is, in essence, what Alcott wanted us to take away from the book.