Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
"Dear Jo," wrote an old protege of Mr. and Mrs. Bhaer's, "here is a case after your own heart. This poor lad is an orphan, sick and friendless. He has been a street musician .... I think there is something in him. Give him a trial." Readers of "Little Women" will re member Jo and his model school at Plumfield, where poor children are taught, not only how to read and to write, but how to amuse and humanize themselves. In this establishment, where each boy has a little garden of his own, a share in a menagerie of small pets, and various privileges not to be found in ordinary schools, poor Nat Wake soon makes himself quite at home ; and in the course of time becomes a great favorite with Aunt Jo and her family of odd boys. Very delightful and very natural is the way in which the social characteristics of these boys is described. We see them at school, at church, in the garden, in the fields — learning, praying, working, playing, but always improving from rude, uncared-for waifs into useful and respectable members of society. The object of the book is evidently not so much to show what is, but what might be, done in school-reformatories, orphan asylums, &c. ; and though written especially for American readers, all the suggestions are applicable to parents, guardians, and teachers on every side of the Atlantic ; and if they would just try the experiment supposed to be carried out successfully at Plumfield, they might, after a while, exclaim with motherly Mrs. Jo: "Dear me! If men and women would only trust, help and understand one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!" 'Little Men' is one of the very few stories about children that children can really understand and admire, and thar adults can read with both pleasure and profit.
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
"Dear Jo," wrote an old protege of Mr. and Mrs. Bhaer's, "here is a case after your own heart. This poor lad is an orphan, sick and friendless. He has been a street musician .... I think there is something in him. Give him a trial." Readers of "Little Women" will re member Jo and his model school at Plumfield, where poor children are taught, not only how to read and to write, but how to amuse and humanize themselves. In this establishment, where each boy has a little garden of his own, a share in a menagerie of small pets, and various privileges not to be found in ordinary schools, poor Nat Wake soon makes himself quite at home ; and in the course of time becomes a great favorite with Aunt Jo and her family of odd boys. Very delightful and very natural is the way in which the social characteristics of these boys is described. We see them at school, at church, in the garden, in the fields — learning, praying, working, playing, but always improving from rude, uncared-for waifs into useful and respectable members of society. The object of the book is evidently not so much to show what is, but what might be, done in school-reformatories, orphan asylums, &c. ; and though written especially for American readers, all the suggestions are applicable to parents, guardians, and teachers on every side of the Atlantic ; and if they would just try the experiment supposed to be carried out successfully at Plumfield, they might, after a while, exclaim with motherly Mrs. Jo: "Dear me! If men and women would only trust, help and understand one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!" 'Little Men' is one of the very few stories about children that children can really understand and admire, and thar adults can read with both pleasure and profit.
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

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"Dear Jo," wrote an old protege of Mr. and Mrs. Bhaer's, "here is a case after your own heart. This poor lad is an orphan, sick and friendless. He has been a street musician .... I think there is something in him. Give him a trial." Readers of "Little Women" will re member Jo and his model school at Plumfield, where poor children are taught, not only how to read and to write, but how to amuse and humanize themselves. In this establishment, where each boy has a little garden of his own, a share in a menagerie of small pets, and various privileges not to be found in ordinary schools, poor Nat Wake soon makes himself quite at home ; and in the course of time becomes a great favorite with Aunt Jo and her family of odd boys. Very delightful and very natural is the way in which the social characteristics of these boys is described. We see them at school, at church, in the garden, in the fields — learning, praying, working, playing, but always improving from rude, uncared-for waifs into useful and respectable members of society. The object of the book is evidently not so much to show what is, but what might be, done in school-reformatories, orphan asylums, &c. ; and though written especially for American readers, all the suggestions are applicable to parents, guardians, and teachers on every side of the Atlantic ; and if they would just try the experiment supposed to be carried out successfully at Plumfield, they might, after a while, exclaim with motherly Mrs. Jo: "Dear me! If men and women would only trust, help and understand one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!" 'Little Men' is one of the very few stories about children that children can really understand and admire, and thar adults can read with both pleasure and profit.

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ISBN-13: 9783849658977
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Publication date: 10/15/2020
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 464
File size: 614 KB
Age Range: 8 - 14 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 also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Table of Contents

1.Nat1
2.The Boys15
3.Sunday23
4.Steppingstones41
5.Pattypans52
6.A Firebrand70
7.Naughty Nan89
8.Pranks and Plays99
9.Daisy's Ball110
10.Home Again122
11.Uncle Teddy138
12.Huckleberries152
13.Goldilocks174
14.Damon and Pythias182
15.In the Willow202
16.Taming the Colt219
17.Composition Day229
18.Crops242
19.John Brooke252
20.Round the Fire265
21.Thanksgiving285
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