Reviewed by Sandra Merville Hart

I ran across this book of fairy tales by Louisa May Alcott while researching books for children written in the 1800s.

I hadn’t heard of this book by the beloved author of Little Women, a book I read several times as a teenager.

Flower Fables, published in 1854,is Alcott’s first book. She dedicated it to Ellen Emerson, the daughter of a family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

These stories were probably read to children of the day. They are allegories. The creative, descriptive stories include strong moral messages, such as treating others with kindness.

There are nine stories in the collection. I think children’s imaginations would have been captivated by them.

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