Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag contains 66 children’s short stories by Louisa May Alcott, divided in six volumes:
Volume 1:
My Boys
Tessa’s Surprises
Buzz
The Children’s Joke
Dandelion
Madam Cluck and her Family
A Curious Call
Tilly’s Christmas
My Little Gentleman
Back Windows
Little Marie of Lehon
My May-day among Curious Birds and Beasts
Our Little Newsboy
Patty’s Patchwork
Volume 2:
Off
Brittany
France
Switzerland
Italy
London
Volume 3:
Cupid and Chow-Chow
Huckleberry
Nelly’s Hospital
Grandma’s Team
Fairy Pinafores
Mamma’s Plot
Kate’s Choice
The Moss People
What Fanny heard
A Marine Merry-making
Volume 4:
My Girls
Lost in a London Fog
The Boys’ Joke, and who got the best of it
Roses and Forget-me-nots
Old Major
What the Girls did
Little Neighbors
Marjorie’s Three Gifts
Patty’s Place
The Autobiography of an Omnibus
Red Tulips
A Happy Birthday
Volume 5:
Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore
Two Little Travellers
A Jolly Fourth
Seven Black Cats
Rosa’s Tale
Lunch
A Bright Idea
How they Camped Out
My Little School-Girl
What a Shovel Did
Clams
Kitty’s Cattle Show
What Becomes of the Pins
Volume 6:
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
How it all Happened
The Dolls’ Journey from Minnesota to Maine
Morning-Glories
Shadow-Children
Poppy’s Pranks
What the Swallows did
Little Gulliver
The Whale’s Story
A Strange Island
Fancy’s Friend
Sobre o autor
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet better known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys (1886). Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies and revenge. Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life.