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Summary: Life Lived Where it's Wild and Free
Review: This book is a sweet little slice of Americana, set in the heart of the pioneer days. If you have never read the series I highly recommend it for anyone. It is wonderfully written and highly descriptive of the days when the country was wild and free.
Laura Ingalls tells the story of her life, wild and free on the beautiful wind swept prairie. She gives us vivid pictures of just what it was like to be a homesteader living off the land. When Charles Ingalls decides the big woods of Wisconsin are getting too crowded, he gets an itchy feeling to head out and homestead in the "Indian Territory" of the midwest. Laura tells the story of this adventurous move with the wide eyed innocence of a little girl. This is especially remarkable since Laura wrote these stories while she was beyond the age of 60!
This account of her life, lived under the billowing top of a covered wagon, reads just as freshly, as if it happened yesterday! You can't help but get swept up in the lush reality of it all. Laura Ingalls Wilder lived these experiences and brings them into sharp focus for us today. Some of her most vivid and gripping recollections come in reference to the wolves and Native Americans surrounding her little cabin. Laura is full of spunk and always ready to face whatever challenge comes along. She is a wonderful role model for young children, even if she is a little impulsive at times.
If you've seen the television show and haven't read the books, please take the time to enjoy them! The TV show was good but dramatized quite a bit. These books read as a historical record told in stark honesty. They dispense with the hollywood melodrama and the present a story in a straight forward way.
But as I said before they are vivid and rich in their portrayal of life on the prairie. This particular book is well worth your time!
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Summary: A good warming of the heart book!
Review: When my mom bought me this book, I wasn't excited to read it. Then, once she coaxed me into reading it, I loved it! A lot happens to Laura and the rest of her family! And something I really loved was when she was happy, I was happy, when she was sad, I was feeling blue, and when she was scared, I fret with her! I know that if I read it again, I would like it just as much as ever!
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Summary: this book is racist
Review: This book is very racist to Indians. I have a hard time believing, with everything we know about American history, that the Indians in the story behaved that way, and that they would have kicked white people off the land. And if they did kick them off the land--good, because white people, including this wonderful family, didn't belong on the small piece of land the government decided to give to the Indians after stealing the rest the country from them.
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Summary: Little House on the Prairie
Review: I thought the book was trying to say what it was like
in the days that Laura,Mary,Carie,Ma,and Pa had lived.
I also think that Laura,well, I wonder what age she
was.
In the story, there was a lot of action with what they
were doing.
I loved the story because it is different from any other
book.
In the end I am kind of disapointed it just ends like if I had cut the book in half.Maybe I will have to read the next one.
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Summary: Enjoyable educational reading for children and adults
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Every child in America should read these books as they provide invaluable and unique insight into the trials and tribulations of pioneer Americans. While a child will be interested in these stories because they're entertaining, funny, and even a bit scary sometimes, these books provide valuable history lessons and even some survival techniques.
Every book in this series is amazing. An adult will probably complete each book in a couple of hours, while it each one will entertain a child for a few days or a week. Some reviewers here said the books were girlish, but I wouldn't say this is the case. There's also a book "Farmer Boy," about the boyhood of Laura's eventual husband, Almanzo Wilder. The contrast between a New York State farm family and the Ingalls' pioneer lifestyle is interesting.
Highly recommended reading for any age, but specifically good for kids in grades 3 through 7.
-- JJ Timmins
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Summary: A real treasure!
Review: "The Big Woods are Getting too Crowded." The Wilder family must sell their cozy house and move away from the big woods. They travel in a covered wagon with their watch-dog Jake running behind them. After some long days of camping and eating only meat and corn-bread, ma, pa, Mary and Laura came into a large prairie. Pa builds a nice log house and a safe log stable for the horses, Pet and Patty. They soon discover that indians are camping very near. Will the indians take all Pa's tobacco? Will they eat all the corn-bread? To find out, read Little House on the Prairie! I recommend this book because it is about life on a wild prairie that holds many suprises! I enjoyed when their dog came to them when they thought he had drowned.
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Summary: America's Original Pioneer Girl
Review: Little House on the Prairie was a very good book, I thought. This book was written in the 1930s, while Mrs. Wilder was in her 60s. Laura Ingalls Wilder's describes her beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family in her Little House books series. They have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story. I really enjoyed hearing about the way she grew up in the Midwest going through hardships, but always pulling through because of the close bond she had with her family. In this book Little House on the Prairie the Ingalls family decide to move from Wisconsin to Kansas and build a new home on the prairie. Which this was only one of the moves of many more to come. They face many hardships while traveling, build a new little cabin, encounter the very few settlers in the area (which was Indian Territory at the time), sickness, prairie fire, good and bad Indians, and finally realize the heartbreak of losing their new farm. Here they meet Mr. Edwards, who becomes a very special family friend, and Dr. Tann, a black doctor to the Indians. This book hasa been banned in many libraries for racial content, it actually shows how settlers fo the time felt. Some were prejudiced, some weren't. Even within the same family there were often differences of opinion. Overall, I thought the book was very interesting and enjoyable to read. I enjoyed it because it showed that life is not always easy and you have to work really hard sometimes to pull through those difficult times. I think that this is a good way of showing younger children reading these books that sometimes in life, you just have to push yourself really hard towards something that you want.
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Summary: Ms. Timson's Class Book Review
Review: We learned how to make butter by reading this book. Our class made cornhusk dolls that we learned about from the story. Everyone found out how to make old fashioned stuff. It was a very exciting book because we learned about things that we didn't know about before. We learned all about wagons from this book. Read this book because it is a very good book.
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Summary: Little House on the Prarie
Review: One day there was a girl named Laura.She and here family moved from the big wood.They was going to move to the prarie.And after that they made them a house.
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Summary: Laura is the best
Review: i think this book was great. even the picture on the outside cover is nicely drawn. laura ingalls wilder did a great job on writing the story based on her life.
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