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100 1 _aAlcott, Louisa May,
_d1832-1888
245 1 0 _aLittle Button Rose
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-04
508 _aCarla Foust, Simon Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Little Button Rose by Louisa May Alcott" is a children’s short story from the late 19th century. It centers on a tender, spirited girl who becomes a peacemaker, mending a neighborhood feud through kindness, courage, and tact. Rosamond—nicknamed Button-Rose—comes to stay with her cousins: gentle Miss Penelope, proud Miss Henrietta, and vain but charming Cicely. Next door lives Mr. Thomas Dover, a widower and former missionary, estranged from the cousins over a petty dispute about a garden gate, hens, and an old summer-house. With fearless warmth, Rosy befriends Mr. Dover (after her cousins’ cat is flung over the wall for killing his chicks), opens a secret “button-hole” gate, ferries cherries and flowers, and gently “missionaries” at home by reading to Miss Penny and winning over Cicely with an amber necklace and a kiss “for a blow.” When Rosy falls ill with scarlet fever, the household unites; Mr. Dover returns, helps guide her through the crisis, and her recovery seals the reconciliation. The story closes with pride and gratitude as the adults finally put aside their stubbornness, their peace earned by the little peacemaker’s love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1887
653 _aOrphans -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aGirls -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCousins -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSelfishness -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aTemper -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSick children -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAmusements -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPride and vanity -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aQuarreling -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aPollock, E.
700 1 _aWalcott, Jessie McDermott,
_d1857-1907
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/littlebuttonrose00alco_0/page/n77/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76977
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