Louisa May's battle : how the Civil War led to Little Women / Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Carlyn Beccia.
"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little Women, which was one of the first novels to be set during the Civil War. It was the book that made her dreams come true, and a story she could never have written without the time she spent healing others in service of her country."--Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802796684 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0802796680 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780802796691 (reinforced)
- ISBN: 0802796699 (reinforced)
- ISBN: 9780605585928 (Perma-Bound)
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
- Publisher: New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Map and text of the battle of Fredericksburg found on back end paper. "Art created with Corel Painter digital oils on gessoed canvas."--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Target Audience Note: | 1040 Lexile. 1040L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 6.0 0.5 158288. |
Awards Note: | Young Hoosier Book Intermediate Award nominee, 2014-2015. |
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Genre: | Picture books. |
Available copies
- 28 of 35 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 35 total copies.
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: Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee, 2014-2015
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Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg | J BIO ALCOTT (Text) | 32826012006672 | J Biography | Available | - |
Greentown Children's Library - Greentown | JB KRULL Y.H. (Text) | 75342000336914 | Junior Biography Young Hoosier | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Recounts the author's experiences as a young woman caring for wounded Union soldiers in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War and the impact that these experiences had on her development as an author. - Baker & Taylor
Explores the classic author's Civil War experiences as a nurse and the published letters home that marked Alcott's first successes as a writer, explaining how her volunteer work inspired realism in her stories and helped her discover and develop her writing style. - McMillan Palgrave
Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little Women, which was one of the first novels to be set during the Civil War. It was the book that made her dreams come true, and a story she could never have written without the time she spent healing others in service of her country.