Author:Louisa May Alcott
The fourth and last book about the March family.
Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a college, built with a legacy from old Mr Lawrence. All Jo's original children are grown young men, scattered around the world, and graceful young women with high ambitions. But young men face as many troubles as children do, and they are still 'Jo's boys'.
In many ways Peter Duck is the best of the series.
—— GuardianSo well written that you don't realize that it is written at all. The adventures just seem to occur to oneself.
—— Hugh Walpole, ObserverThis is the real stuff of imagination which might so easily happen. . . all the details are true to life, the ship is a real ship, with all its sails and rigging made familiar, and the voyage which those happy children make to southern seas and coral islands is the beautiful possibility of daring and freedom become living and credible.
—— ListenerHe's funny, clever, nimble and moving. Above all, his poetic generosity refuses to consider serious subjects as out of bounds just because he's writing for a young audience.
—— Evening Standard