About this title: This is the third book in the highly acclaimed and beloved series of books chronicling the life of Laura Ingalls, who lived at the end of the 19th century. This volume describes the childhood of Almanzo Wilder, Laura's future husband. It tells about daily life with his older brother and two sisters on his father's prosperous farm, his passionate ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780590327879ISBN:0590327879
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK--GREAT CONDITION--has library plastic cover to protect it. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Williams, Garth. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations. Little House (Original Series Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. Spine is in tact, min chipped edging, very lite tanning, otherwise very good condition. read more
Description: Williams, Garth. Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, wear/aging/bends on cover, aging, 1" tear on top & 2" tear on bottom of front cover along spine, 1" tear on top & bottom of back cover along spine, ink mark on top corner of last 120 pages, stk #2335ddm8. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 371 p. Contains: Illustrations. Little House (Original Series Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"A lot of people have been bagging on this book, but it might well be one of my favorite of the series so far! Granted, it's not full of adventure and hardship as the others (Almanzo's family essentially wins constantly -- best pumpkin at the fair, best horses in the county, best cotton wool ever spun in the northeastern states, best this, best that), but there's just so many great moments and events. I mean, the bullwhipping of the violent students! The thief who is held at bay the dog! The $200 brow-beating! The meditations on popcorn! The value of a dollar speech! The crunchy libertarian overtones! (Thanks, Rose!) Everything about this book rules, especially the illustration near the end where Almanzo appears to be eating an entire table of food by himself. This is the Farmer Boy. Love him. LOVE HIM!"
"Once again, another fun story for me and my daughter. She loved hearing about little Almanzo's love of horses and doughnuts. She thought it was funny that he was hungry all the time and always sneaking doughnuts (and yes I've been buying doughnuts lately). I loved learning about the seasonal chores and of course Christmas for the Wilder family was my favorite chapter--simple presents in the stockings and lots of good food. I was also struck by how much work the family had to do--especially the mother. She was constantly doing something productive--making dinner, weaving cloth, making butter etc. It made me feel lazy! But my favorite character was Almanzo's father James. Like Charles Ingalls, he was constantly teaching his children values. My favorite conversation that he had with Almanzo was on Independence Day when he taught that the country was founded and settled by farmers--that it was and will be farmers who move west and make the country what it is. This was particularly poignant because as a reader, I know that Almanzo will eventually do just that--move west and farm."
"I came back to this old childhood favorite because I am spending this summer working on a small vegetable farm. These books are every bit as wonderful as they were when I first read them as a child, although I notice different things now.
This is certainly an idealized version of 19th-century American farming - the Wilder family farm is wonderfully prosperous and the main hardship of the story is that Almanzo's father does not think he is old enough to help train the horses. I suppose the fact that adults always idealize their own childhood, combined with the fact that this childhood was something Laura Ingalls Wilder heard about secondhand from her husband rather than experienced firsthand, leads to it being even more sugar-coated than the other books. But it's still incredibly charming, and there is something that appeals to me about the view of life and morality presented here - the incredible self-sufficiency of the farm is incredible to read about, and makes me secretly wish I had as many useful skills as any given character in the novel.
The book also rivals the Redwall series with endless descriptions of mouth-watering meals. I wish I could eat like that as often as these characters do!"
"I finished reading "Farmer Boy". It is one of books in the series of Little House on the Prairie which was written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This book is the third episode of series, and described about Almanzo's life in his father's farm. Almanzo would be the husband of author, Laura in the future.
At first, I thought about I prefer to read Laura's part, because I felt sympathy for Laura's life many times. However, I was impressed about his father's word. His father said, "It was farmers that took all that country and made it America." on the Independence Day.
It's difficult to agree with his opinion entirely, but I think his word is including the truth. I can see a bunch of corn field in this country, America."
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