First Impressions I had not read The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder in a long time and had forgotten what a classic children’s book it was. Like The Force Awakens, The Long Winter felt like a throwback to the earlier books. It was like an old friend had come home. Impressions While Reading Laura, […]
By the Shores of Silver Lake is a much more mature novel in comparison to the series thus far. Hardship has befallen Plum Creek. It is addressed right away that the Ingalls have suffered through Scarlet Fever with Mary becoming blind as a resolute. Also, even though it is not mentioned, in the gap between […]
The whole book is a treasure really, but I particularly liked when Laura would go off to discover the inhabitants of Plum Creek, splashing her feet in the water, running up hills and encounters with water wild life. Although my favorite was her class party at Plum Creek with snotty Nellie Olson. As a come […]
I recently brushed off the dust and read it for the first time in over fifteen years. When I first read Little House on the Prairie I was overwhelmed by the coolness of Laura playing in the tall prairie grass with her sunbonnet swinging down her back, with a vigilant look-out for Indians after chore […]
As much as I love the Little House books I don’t recall ever reading this installment of the series. Farmer Boy was really interesting and a different look at that time period (1860s) in upper state New York. It mainly focused on farming which was the families bread and butter/forte. I don’t posses a green […]
I first read the Little House books when I was seven and became a main staple on my bookshelf until I was thirteen,reading them (particularly this one) from cover to cover until they had to be thrown away; but I could recite them from heart anyway… In elementary school we practiced in the D.E.A.R. […]