Jack And Jill: A Village Story

Jack And Jill: A Village Story

by Louisa May Alcott
Jack And Jill: A Village Story

Jack And Jill: A Village Story

by Louisa May Alcott

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Overview

When best friends, Jack and Jill, tumble off their sled, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months.

Their parents fill their days with the joys of Christmas preparations, a theatrical production and many other imaginative events.

Despite being written more than a century ago, this charming and sweet book has some very important themes and messages for today.

In classic LMA fashion, this book is meant to be morally inspiring for Tweens and teens who already accept the moral premise of classic conservative Christian values.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781805470533
Publisher: Intell Book Publishers
Publication date: 11/30/2022
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range: 3 Months to 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author




Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.




he began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard and under it wrote novels for young adults.




She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest. The family moved to Boston in 1834,




Alcott's early education included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau, but she received the majority of her schooling from her father, who was strict and believed in "the sweetness of self-denial".She also received some instruction from writers and educators such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller, all of whom were family friends.




Along with Elizabeth Stoddard, Rebecca Harding Davis, Anne Moncure Crane, and others, Alcott was part of a group of female authors during the Gilded Age, who addressed women's issues in a modern and candid manner. Their works were, as one newspaper columnist of the period commented, "among the decided 'signs of the times'"
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