Little Men

 

By Louisa May Alcott

 

A pleasure as always to read one of Alcott’s lovely books. This is the second of the March family trilogy. It follows the lives of grown-up Jo, her husband and the 12 boys and 2 girls that she teaches in her boarding school.

 

It’s full of life lessons which can be enjoyed by both children and adults. Through a series of adventures we see and experience the true development of "real family values” from the March family. We watch as the children learn and grow up making the right decisions in the end, no matter where their paths may have started out.

 

I grew to really love the characters. The stories of how they ended up in Plumfield’s boarding school are sometimes sad but they are making the best of it and getting on with life, having fun as children should.

 

It’s a charming book. Alcott always creates books that are a joy to read.

 

Favourite quotes:

• We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be

• If you exercise your mind, George, it will get hungry just as your body does

• Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us