Jane Austen for Kids: Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities

Jane Austen is one of the most influential and best-loved novelists in English literature. Austen's genius was her cast of characters-so timeless and real that readers today recognize them in their own families and neighborhoods. Her book's universal themes-love and hate, hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility-still tug at heartstrings today in cultures spanning the globe.

Austen wrote about daily life in England as she knew it, growing up a clergyman's daughter...