This 'tasty' collection brings together five stories and extracts all with food at their heart. Food and literature have a long relationship and food is used to shed light on characters and relationships, from meals as the centre of family life to food as a political symbol.

Unadapted short stories by Louisa May Alcott, Alphonse Daudet, Jack London, Laura Esquivel and Damon Runyon.

Little Women tells the story of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March growing up in nineteeth-century America. Born into a poor but loving family, the girls must overcome personal difficulties and challenges to find self-fulfilment and happiness.

Scholastic Readers are a series of contemporary film and TV adaptations, original teenage fiction, and a classic literature, simplified for students of English. Each title is especially chosen to motivate and engage teenage classes, and the magazine-style Fact Files explore the themes raised in each story, as well as providing contextual background.

Retold by Kelly Reinhart

Human interest

Growing up in New England during the American Civil War isn’t easy for the March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. With their father away, they must learn to make sacrifices and accept disappointments.
Discover how the four sisters’ dreams finally come true in this timeless classic about love, kindness, and generosity which is based on the author’s childhood experiences.

Dossiers:
The American Civil War
America: The Melting Pot
America: Immigration Today

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Series:  3-4 týdny

'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another' Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices, learn from their mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble. BACKSTORY: Learn all about the author's life and how it inspired her famous story, and find out which of the March sisters you most resemble!

The story of the four March sisters and their loves, problems and adventures is sometimes sad, often funny but always charming. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868. It is also a film starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon.

CD-ROM - additional activities and the complete audio recording