Winter Reading

TITLE: Two Little Women on a Holiday

AUTHOR: Carolyn Wells

COPYRIGHT: 1917

NUMBER OF PAGES: 171

PLOTLINE: In this well-written sequel to Two Little Women and Treasure House, Dotty Rose and Dolly Fayre are invited to spend a week in New York with their friend Bernice. They will be staying with Bernice’s uncle, who collects and sells valuables to museums.

Also staying with the girls is the frivolous and flighty Alicia Steele, Bernice’s older cousin. From the first day in New York, she and Dolly have a testing relationship, which comes to an exciting climax when Dolly accidentally overhears Alicia making plans to elope!

This book has many wonderful twists and turns, and everything is resolved most beautifully at the ending, when the four girls find out what Mr. Forbes’ big secret is, if Alicia is really going to elope or not, and who stole the precious antique earring from upstairs . . .

*****

“Leave it to me. I’ll engineer the conversation and all you girls need to do is chip in now and then.” - Two Little Women on a Holiday

Book Review

TITLE: Two Little Women and Treasure House

AUTHOR: Carolyn Wells

COPYRIGHT: 1916

ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Dodd Mead and Company, Inc.

NUMBER OF PAGES: 270

PLOTLINE: Two fifteen-year-old girls, Dolly Fayre and Dotty Rose, find themselves in a wonderful situation: they’ve just become the owners of a house that is entirely their own!

“Treasure House,” as they call the little building, soon becomes their second home. They study, read, and have picnics in the house, and after awhile they wonder how they ever got along without it.

Then Dolly receives the terrible news that her family is going to move away! How could she ever leave Treasure House now?

Through a series of coincidences, Dolly learns there is one thing that could keep her from having to move---if she could somehow make the snooty Bernice Forbes popular in school! But how in the world could she do that . . . unless Bernice wins the class president election?

Two Little Women and Treasure House has quite a happy ending (which is always satisfying). Another one of the pluses of this book is that the writing is very old-fashioned and sweet!

*****

“Oh! I do abhor, detest, despise, abominate these cubed XY’s!” - Two Little Women and Treasure House (One of the characters is speaking of geometry.)