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Summary: A classic for little girls (and big ones too!)
Review: Skip the TV series (which is Michael Landon's own personal deconstructing of what he muttered were "a series of cookbooks") and grab this wonderful classic. In the book, Laura is 5 but in reality she was 3 when her family lived for a short time near Independence, KS. She had such a vivid memory, even at that age, that when she wrote the book 60 years later, she was able to recall images and views before revisiting the Little House site prior to publishing her book in the mid-1930s. A wonderful book
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Summary: True stories from a prairie girl!!
Review: Little House on the Prairie is a book that once you pick it up , you will never be able to put it down until the end.
Want to know how a little girl out on the prairie felt when wolves surrounded the house where her and her family lived? Or do you want to know how it felt when this girl believed that she had lost her greatest companion in life, her dog?
All this and more can be found in this book. Once you begin reading this book, you get caught up into the life of this little prairie girl, Laura Ingalls Wilder. The story is so brilliantly written, you will be able to feel how Laura feels through times of happiness and times of great sorrow.
Reading through this book will make anybody think that he or she has it easy in life compared to the Ingalls. But through thick and thin, the Ingalls' family was able to survive. This book shows a person that you should never give up no matter how hard things seem in life. The words in the book come from the heart of the author. Laura Ingalls Wilder experienced the things written throughout her book. Not even the best historian could come up with such details and feeling. People both young and old will enjoy this book In fact, this book is great to read outloud with the entire family
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Summary: Great for Adults too!
Review: Laura's family once setteld. They are great books! I am seeing the whole experience from a new perspective now that I am 35 (relating more with Ma I think) and I am enjoying the stories completely. It's also nice because the books can be read in a single afternoon or just a few hours. A wonderful look at the pioneer life with details on cabin building and settling a piece of land. I highly recommend these books but suggest reading them in order to keep the story of Laura's adventures straight.
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Summary: Life on the Frontier
Review: Pa Ingalls is tired of how crowded the big woods are getting. So he decides to sell the house and move west with his family. Just before the ice breaks, the family loads up their wagon and heads out. They cross the Mississippi River and then head south, settling two days away from Independence, Missouri. Now they have to build a new house and survive the wilderness. Meanwhile, Laura is anxious to see a papoose. And with all the Indians in the area, she may get her chance.This is a charming book. It's almost a collection of short stories with many chapters being a self-contained event. Still, through these pages, we get a good picture of life on the American frontier 130 years ago. The book gives plenty of detail about their everyday life without getting bogged down. And it is interesting. Frankly, some of the chapters are so harrowing I felt my pulse quicken. Often I found myself shaking my head in awe at what the Ingalls dealt with on a daily basis. This is a good way to make anyone appreciate just what we have today. These books are still popular 70 years after they were first written for good reason. They are an entertaining and enlightening look at a bygone era.
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Summary: real history
Review: This is the story of one year in the life of a family long ago in America. They were happy in their "Little House in the Big Woods". Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura, baby Carrie and dog Jack decide to move west so Pa would have more room to hunt. Pa is a hunter extraordinaire and earns an excellent living for the family. But the woods where they live get more crowded every year so there are less animals to go around. They pack up and move away from their dear home to a new, unknown land. Their covered wagon makes a great camping vehicle and they enjoy a nice camping trip on their way. They would stop driving for the day, Pa would go out hunting, Ma and the girls would set up camp, and Pa would come back with the evening's supper. They cooked it over a fire, ate the leftovers for breakfast, packed up, and were back on the road for the day. When they arrived at what Pa said was "home", it was nothing but a big space of grass. Where would they live? No problem.
Pa knows how to build a house with logs, make furniture, dig a well, and build a stable for the horses. That Pa can do anything! The land is free, the hunting is free, building the house and digging the well is free. By the time they plant the garden, I guess they would have no need of money. But they do get money. Why? Because Pa is a hunter, remember? And a good one. He sells the furs, and the hunting is so plentiful in this area that he has no trouble at all. The neat thing about this book is that it describes how to do many things: How to build the house, How to make a rocking chair, How to cook over the fire, and describes a clever way to protect your home from a prairie fire that really works! Many popular songs are also included as Pa plays the fiddle in the evening. Some we remember and some we wish we knew. Because of these things and because of the indians, this was a book that my boys enjoyed right along with my daughter. My husband, the couch potato, even became interested and rented some "Little House" videos. This is the best kind of history. It's like talking to your grandma and hearing the real story of what things were really like for real people. If you like history, you will love this book.
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