After having loved the movie "Little Women" with Susan Sarandon, Claire Danes, Winona Ryder, etc... since I was a little girl I was flabbergasted to know that Ms. Alcott had written additional books about the March family. My grandmother gave me a beautiful copy of Little Women when I was young and I had to give it a few goes before I actually got through it.  Finding Little Men in a collection of children's classics for my Nook was a true treat. It also reminded me of part of the reasons that I wanted to become a teacher... and how far we have come from these "experimental" type schools. I sometimes wonder if progress has really been made.

B&N says ~ Louisa May Alcott's charming, although now somewhat dated, companion piece to the perennially popular Little Women highlights the life of the wildest of the March sisters, Jo, now married to "her professor," and presiding as the harried but happy mistress over the Plumfield Estate School—home to a small group of needy boys, relatives, and sons whose mischievous antics and emotional upheavals provide ample opportunities for Alcott to share her personal philosophy about learning and life. Filled with pathos and humor as well as insights into the mysterious world of childhood, Little Men entertains and educates in equal measure.

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” ~ Maya Angelou