Laddie: A True Blue Story (With Original Illustrations) | Author: Gene Stratton-Porter | Language: English | Publication Date: June 30, 2025 | Print Length: 385 pages

Narrated by the charming and adventurous “Little Sister,” Gene Stratton-Porter’s Laddie is a story about love, loyalty, courage, and many other virtues. Set shortly after the end of the Civil War in territory which was very recently frontier, this classic tale shows us a marvelous example of what family and friendship can be—full of laughter, joy, and trust in each other and in God. Little Sister also lets us share her love of, and wonder at, the birds, beasts, trees, and plants which have helped furnish her a better education than most of those obtained in schools.

This is a carefully designed edition of the 1913 classic, formatted to closely imitate the original Grosset & Dunlap edition. Close attention has been paid to specifics like correctly formatting italics, quotation marks & apostrophes, and sections of verse. The illustrations are from the 1913 edition, and the cover is based on the same original. Unabridged.