Flower Fables

by Louisa May Alcott

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Flower Fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 9, 1854. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written six years earlier for Ellen Emerson.

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.

The stories are titled as:

  • The Frost King: or, The Power of Love
  • Eva's Visit to Fairy-Land
  • The Flower's Lesson
  • Lily-Bell and Thistledown
  • Little Bud
  • Clover-Blossom
  • Little Annie's Dream: or, The Fairy Flower
  • Ripple, the Water-Spirit
  • Fairy Song


Books by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women
Little Men
The Abbot's Ghost

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Myth & Fairy Tales   
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