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Jack and Jill: A Classic Children's Story of Friendship and Recovery
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617209222
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 12 2013
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Jack and Jill is Louisa May Alcott's classic children's novel of friendship, injury, recovery, family life, and moral growth in a New England village. Jack Minot and Janey Pecq-known to everyone as Jack and Jill-are close companions whose winter fun ends in a serious sledding accident. Confined by injury and forced into a long period of recovery, the children must learn patience, self-command, sympathy, and courage while the village around them becomes part of their education.
First published in 1880, Jack and Jill belongs with Alcott's best-loved fiction for young readers, sharing the domestic warmth, moral seriousness, and lively child-centred observation that made Little Women, Little Men, and An Old-Fashioned Girl enduring classics. The novel is not merely a story of convalescence, but a village portrait: school, play, family discipline, neighbourly kindness, childish faults, and small victories all become part of Alcott's account of growing up well.
For readers of classic children's literature, nineteenth-century American fiction, Louisa May Alcott, girls' and boys' friendship stories, and family-centred moral fiction, Jack and Jill remains one of Alcott's most attractive juvenile novels: humane, cheerful, instructive, and grounded in the belief that character is formed through affection, difficulty, and daily conduct.
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