It's a childhood favorite.
It's outdated. It did NOT age well. It has the most racist portrayal of a Chinese person I've ever seen, but I still love it.

This was surprisingly good!

It was good but rather bland. It kinda just followed along with Rose, and her life, blah blah blah.
Overall though, it was a pretty good book about family and friendships, and it definitely taught me a couple lessons.

For ages 10+

It was cute. I am trying to read all the classics I missed when I was young.

I like this book much better than Elsie Densmore.....the little girl is still pious...but she make honest mistakes, too.

2.5 stars. I was expecting a novel that could appeal to adults and children alike, as Little Women and Little Men can, but this is definitely juvenile literature. The moralizing and sentimentality got rather boring. I wonder how I would have reacted as a young girl reading it. But as an adult, it's not something I'd come back to.

If you read Little Women and thought, “Wow, I wonder what other books Louisa May Alcott has written!” just know that I, a Little Woman superfan who has read almost all of Alcott’s books, think all of them are absolutely trash.
I’m sure Alcott was considered a feminist icon back in the Stone Age or whatever, but WOW she sucks at writing women.
She’s unbelievably judgmental when girls want to do anything that involves fashion or beauty. Like, yeah, you don’t need rich dresses or makeup to look pretty. But if you want rich dresses and makeup then who the hell is Louisa May to judge you???
We get it, you were poor when you grew up so you think that any woman who cares about her appearance is a prostitute.
Jesus Christ, the amount of female bashing is literally impossible to read about. The protagonist, who is a 13 year old girl, gets bashed and called silly for getting her ears pierced-something that MANY girls did at that point. Why? Because she’s being vain and no little girl should make herself seem pretty. She should only ever be modest and live in a goddamn nursery as she sews to her death and complains that “this new generation is so conceited!”
Shut the hell up Alcott. You wrote one good book in your entire life.