Little Pussy Willow — Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A charmingly illustrated, sweet and wholesome story for girls, full of the best flavor of the New-England country-life, which no one describes so well as Mrs. Stowe. The little maid who is born in the back-country among the hills, to whom Mother Fern and little Mistress Liverwort and Pussy Willow give their gifts like the fairies of old, - the last the "gift of always seeing the bright side of everything," - grows up with helpful hands and sunny heart, a cheery example of the best thing that grows in this happy corner of the earth. Meantime, little Emily Proudie in New York is fighting the losing battle for health and happiness, under the disadvantage of too many so-called advantages. It is a good day for the wilted city damsel when she is sent for recovery to the country farm-house, where she learns from little Pussy Willow how to make butter and to look at nature, and to live for other people and not for herself alone. And when the great shadow of our war rests over their young womanhood, they are able to write their names in the long roll of noble women who served in one way as truly as the men in another. We commend "Pussy Willow" to the welcome of readers little and large.
-"The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review," Volume 45