When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of c ourse, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his ''little women'' when he comes home. This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years.