Anna Chapin Ray

“ Miss Reed's girls have all the impulses and likes of real girls as their characters are developing, and her record of their thoughts and actions reads like a chapter snatched from the page of life. It is bright, genial, merry, wholesome, and full of good characterizations. ”

“ The characters are frank, open, and sensible, and the author knows girls and boys and has real sympathy with them.—Boston Journal.
Her books are always natural and sane, with plenty of action, humor, and sentiment of the right kind.—Providence Journal. ”

“ With 8 full-page pictures from drawings by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. $2.00.
The artists selected to illustrate have caught the spirit of the originals and contributed a series of strikingly beautiful and faithful pictures of the author's Characters and scenes.—Boston Herald.
Alice Barber Stephens, who is very near the head of American illustrators, has shown wonderful ability in delineating the characters and costumes for "Little Women." They are almost startlingly realistic.—Worcester Spy. ”