Flower Fables (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

At age 16, Louisa May Alcott wrote these fairy tales for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughter Ellen. Six years later, in 1855, the collection was published as her first children’s book. The magical stories include “The Frost King: or, The Power of Love,” “Eva’s Visit to Fairy-Land,” “The Flower’s Lesson,” and “Little Bud.”