Little Men

With two young sons of her own and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield Jo March - now Mrs Jo Bhaer - couldnt be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster... About the Author Louisa May Alcott (1832-88) was brought up in Pennsylvania USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then in 1862 during the height of the American Civil War Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse but she contracted typhoid. Out of her experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide acclaim followed by an adult novel Moods. She was reluctant to write a childrens book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American childrens novel to become a classic