Complete and unabridged, Elsie Dinsmore, the first volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, will speak to the hearts of girls and young women as much today as they did when first published in the late 1800's. Sweet, motherless eight-year-old Elsie struggles with several bewildering problems. She has never known her mother, and her relationship with her father is filled with misunderstanding and tears. The young girl learns to depend wholly upon her faith in her heavenly father.
Full of the family values and personal faith that are jeopardized in today's society, the Elsie book series will inspire today's reader, as they have for generations, to find richer relationships with the members of their family and with the Lord.
Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldly father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.
There has been almost no character in American juvenile fiction which has attained more widespread interest and affection than 'Elsie.' --Ladies Home Journal