Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott writer's notebook Only a Boy Named David

Only a Boy Named David

and has been nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Anderson Award

but switched to fine arts

need not always feel like an intrusive guest—rather

if sometimes petulant

Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott writer's notebook Only a Boy Named DavidA beautiful hardcover edition collection of illustrated fairy stories from Louisa May Alcott the author who brought us Little Women. Originally published in 1854, this collection of fables was inspired by Louisa's time spent in the woods around Walden Pond a spot endearingly named "Fairyland" by Walden's own Henry David Thoreau. Young Louisa collected these fairy fables into a volume dedicated to her friend Ellen Emerson, the daughter of Ralph Waldo