About this title: Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the world-famous Little House books. Pa sells the house, and the family sets out for Indian country! Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. Includes charm locket.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: HarperFestival
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060000462ISBN:0060000465
Description: Williams, Garth. New. No dust jacket as issued. New. Excellent condition, new, paperback with charm, in shrink-wrap. Clean and crisp. A nice copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperFestival
Date Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN-13:9780060000462ISBN:0060000465
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"I am always looking for the next book to read aloud with my children, and now that they are getting older it is especially fun for me to find that perfect book that will capture their interests and imagination. For my six year old daughter, Hattie, that book was Little House on the Prairie.
Over the last few months, Hattie has developed a fascination with pioneer times. I'm sure moving to our little pioneer-grown town here in Utah has a lot to do with it - like the active rail line through our last home town in Massachusetts helped develop our oldest son's enthusiasm for trains when he was younger.
Or maybe it's just the exercise of the imagination that appeals to her - it isn't hard for Hattie to picture a young girl sharing household jobs and responsibilites with an older sibling, or to feel the safety and warmth of family and home. But to put herself into a situation where that home has to be built from hewn logs, a daily dinner of cornmeal is prepared over an open fire, and entertainment consists entirely of chasing prarie dogs and listening to Pa on his fiddle - now that requires a leap of imagination.
I think it was good for Hattie to see that Laura and her family could live on very little and still be happy. And to see that they were required to make do with the things they had, while working hard each day. I think it was good for her to see how habits and customs have changed since pioneer times. Pa was often enjoying a smoke on his pipe after dinner. "They used to smoke a lot in pioneer times," she told me in a very matter-of-fact way. She was able to understand, in a way that I felt was significant, that over time habits and attitudes can change.
The one thing that concerned me about the book was its treatment of the white settlement of Native American lands. Laura's Pa purposely moves his family to what he calls "Indian Territory," to homestead on the land there. He is much more sympathetic to the Native Americans than other homesteaders we meet in the book, but he has moved onto their lands, nonetheless. However, in spite of this attitude of entitlement, the book ends with a very poignant scene in which Laura and her family feel a profound sadness watching the Native Americans vacate the land, and then choose to leave it themselves. Without making any political or social statements, Wilder captures a feeling of empathy that I felt was very valuable for my daughter to experience."
"I had never read the book, only seen the television series. As I read this to my daughters, we remarked on how little the family had, how hard they worked, and how nobody ever complained. We looked around our house and remarked how much stuff we have and how little of it we need. My oldest said she would pick out 3 dresses to keep and give the rest away. We will see what happens with that, but at least we are thinking differently.
On the literary side, the writing has engaged the girls and they always want me to read more than one chapter, but I make them wait. One a day and we talk about it. It is written with simple language, though many of the words are unfamiliar to children since they are either not regularly used today or have nothing to do with our daily life. That makes for some explaining during the reading, but it is not a detractor."
"Well, I didn't like this book as well as the first. I found it fascinating to read all the details about how they moved and how they built the house. It amazes me to think about how things have changed. I do feel quite spoiled. The thing that I didn't like so much about the book was the way the conflict between the settlers and the Native Americans was portrayed. I know there was a lot of conflict and misunderstanding, but I wish that it could have been told using different words. I found myself having to skip racist comments. I know that people felt that way at the time, but I wish there would have been an explanation about it in the book. I was glad that I was reading the book with Nakyla so that we could talk about it. I will have to remember this and be cautious if there comes a day when she wants to read it on her own."
"I recently read the first one in this series, "Little House in the Big Woods." This one was just as interesting, if not more so. In this installment the family moves to Kansas in a covered wagon and proceeds to set up shop on the prairie. This involves building a house, all their furniture, a stable, and digging a well. Everything they eat they either grow or hunt for. Maybe it's the pioneer in me, but I find all the details of how they do these things fascinating. Pa builds a door without any nails, for godsakes! At various points the family home is surrounded by a pack of wolves and the family itself not only survives malaria (which they know by the name "fever n' ague"), but comes very close to being massacred by the "wild Indians" of the prairie. The scene at the end, in which the family watches an endless train of Indians moving west, was very sad and touching. For kids or not, these are great books!"
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