CALICO Louisa May Alcott’s Illustrated CLASSICS Little Women Adapted by Adapted by Kathryn Lay Kathryn Lay Illustrated by Illustrated by Mike Lacey Mike Lacey magic Wagon
1 Presents for Marmee It won’t be Christmas without any presents grumbled Jo Meg sighed It’s awful being poor Little Amy sniffed It’s not fair that some girls have lots of nice things and others have nothing We’ve got Father and Mother and each other Beth said happily from her corner They each thought of Father far away in the fi ghting Meg said Mother knows it will be a hard winter She thinks we should not spend money on pleasures when the men suffer in the army We each have a dollar and that won’t help the army much I would like to buy a new book said Jo who loved to read 4
Beth said with a quiet sigh I plan to buy new music I will buy a nice box of drawing pencils Amy said Mother didn’t say we couldn’t spend our own money We work hard for it said Jo They each agreed that they worked hard with Meg teaching Jo taking care of fussy old Aunt March Beth keeping the house tidy and Amy going to school with girls who laughed at her for being poor Margaret was sixteen very pretty and a bit vain Fifteen-year-old Jo was tall and thin Beth was thirteen and shy She seemed happy to live in a world of her own Amy was pretty with blue eyes and yellow hair She always carried herself like a young lady When the clock struck six Beth put a pair of slippers by the fi replace to warm The girls knew their mother was coming and they all cheered up Jo held the slippers nearer to the fi re 5
