Flower Fables

Description

Louisa May Alcott was twenty-one when she published this, her first book. A collection of fairy stories and poems she originally told to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen, Flower Fables is a charming and delightful achievement from the hand that would eventually craft the timeless classic Little Women. Flower Fables is presented here in large print for easier reading by children and adults of any age.

First Sentence

THE summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth, while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk.

Description

From the book:THE summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth, while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk. Fire-flies hung in bright clusters on the dewy leaves, that waved in the cool night-wind; and the flowers stood gazing, in very wonder, at the little Elves, who lay among the fern-leaves, swung in the vine-boughs, sailed on the lake in lily cups, or danced on the mossy ground, to the music of the hare-bells, who rung out their merriest peal in honor of the night. Under the shade of a wild rose sat the Queen and her little Maids of Honor, beside the silvery mushroom where the feast was spread. "Now, my friends," said she, "to while away the time till the bright moon goes down, let us each tell a tale, or relate what we have done or learned this day. I will begin with you, Sunny Lock," added she, turning to a lovely little Elf, who lay among the fragrant leaves of a primrose.

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Other Editions

• Flower FableseBook1st World Library2006-01-01
• Flower FablesHardcoverTandem Library2002-05-01
• Flower FableseBookFictionwise, Inc.2004-01-01
• Flower FablesPaperbackPavilion Press2004-03-01
• Flower FablesPaperbackKessinger Publishing, LLC2004-05-07
• Flower FableseBookeBooksLib2005-01-01