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Farmer Boy (Little House #3)

by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)

3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 · rating details · 22,233 ratings · 758 reviews

While Laura Ingalls grows up on the western prairie, a boy named Almanzo Wilder is living on a farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all,...more

Hardcover, 372 pages

Published October 1st 1953 by Perfection Learning (first published 1933)

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Nov 26, 2012 Wendy Darling rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sweet-old-fashioned, illustrated, snowy, pioneer, historical-fiction, middle-grade, favorites-all-time, read-2012, readalong

My annual re-read, this time with Heidi! :)

My favorite of the Little House books from start to finish, but especially the chapter where Ma and Pa go away for a week and the house falls into disarray as the children eat cake, slice watermelon, blacken the parlor wall, and most importantly, use up all the sugar making ice cream. Still no other author has ever captured the life of pioneers in quite this way, and the good eats will make your mouth water!

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May 21, 2013 Diane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens, midwest, comfort-books

I loved these farm stories told from 9-year-old Almanzo's point of view. I don't think I read this book when I was young, but it was delightful to read it as an adult.

My father grew up on a farm, and I inherited his pride in what farmers have accomplished. I liked this quote, spoken by Almanzo's father:

"A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard,...more

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Jan 10, 2009 Elise rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens

Upon finishing Little House on the Prairie the kids and I were dying to know where the Ingalls' adventures would take them next but discovered that the next in the series focuses on Almanzo Wilder, Laura's future husband. We were immediately taken in by the descriptions of late 1800's farm life in upper New York State. We were struck in particular by the richness Almanzo's family enjoyed in comparison with the Ingalls who seemed to be moving all the time. One of my favorite features of this book...more

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Feb 01, 2012 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books

#3 Farmer Boy - August 2011

I listened to Farmer Boy for the most part, only read a chapter or two in the middle on my own. I enjoy the book so much more read by Cherry Jones rather than my own voice in my brain. She makes me feel so cozy and I'm swept back in time. I don't think I ever read Farmer Boy when I was young, only the books starring Laura. I can't believe how hard Almanzo had to work at such a young age. And he enjoyed the work! And I really can't believe how much he ate! So much food!...more

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Jun 17, 2008 Theresa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, in particular "Little House in the Big Woods", "Little Town on the Prairie" and "These Happy Golden Years". They are books I can read and savor over and over again. But I just need to give a shout out to my absolute favorite Laura Ingalls Wilder book, and that is "Farmer Boy"--to me, Farmer Boy is the under-appreciated middle child of the Laura Ingalls collection. People forget about it just because it doesn't start with "Little" or end with "Prairie"....more I loved all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, in particular "Little House in the Big Woods", "Little Town on the Prairie" and "These Happy Golden Years". They are books I can read and savor over and over again. But I just need to give a shout out to my absolute favorite Laura Ingalls Wilder book, and that is "Farmer Boy"--to me, Farmer Boy is the under-appreciated middle child of the Laura Ingalls collection. People forget about it just because it doesn't start with "Little" or end with "Prairie". It is about Almanzo, who Laura eventually marries. There are several reasons why I love this book more than the others:

1) Almanzo and his family are loaded. Well, compared to Laura they are. They run a much bigger farm than she does and the father is something of a gentleman farmer, not like the wild Charles who is all over the place and doesn't know what he's doing (let's be honest a lot of the books are based around the fact that Charles is a moron--first they leave the big woods, where the rest of their family is. Then they're stuck somewhere on the friggin prairie and have to ford the friggin river and almost lose Jack. Then they're living in some kind of underground burrow. Then they're starving through the winter because Charles is an idiot who can't provide for his family. This never happens to Almanzo's dad.)

2) They take you through the whole farming season, from trashing the hay to cutting up the ice, to gathering potatoes in great, great detail. It's really a pleasure to read. It's also a big farm, like I mentioned so they're more commercial than the Ingalls' farm. You get to see the process of how, for example, they sell their butter, which is pretty cool.

3) THE FOOD. I've never come across another book that is as lushly descriptive as this one in terms of food. I thought Harry Potter might do it at some point but it proved to disappoint in that respect. Being loaded + working from 5 AM in the fields before the days the dangers of saturated fats or Atkins were known = glorious food descriptions. I can't even begin to recount them but I urge that you check this book out for yourself. I'd also make sure to check it out with the original illustrations(less)

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Mar 28, 2011 Kressel Housman rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: kids, boys, parents

Shelves: fiction, read-aloud-to-kids, historical-fiction, classics, little-house

I was a Little House fan as a girl, but since Farmer Boy is the story of Almanzo’s childhood and not Laura’s, I didn’t bother with it. Who wanted to read about boys? Then, I grew up, and it turned out Farmer Boy was my husband’s favorite of the entire series. And since G-d has blessed us with sons, my husband brought it in for them. Our eldest read it on his own, and I read it aloud to the younger ones, which turned out to be a real treat. The book is every bit as good as the rest of the series,...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics, read-aloud-to-boys

At first the boys weren't at all sure if they liked this switch to Almanzo's life story; they kept wanting to know what Laura was up to. But they got in to it soon enough, right about when we got to the story of the schoolteacher whipping the big bullies with the blacksnake ox-whip. (I had forgotten that these boys had beaten their previous schoolteacher so badly that he later died of his injuries. It astounds me that the father of one of the boys was bragging about it and that no one was punish...more

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Oct 13, 2007 Jen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I haven't read this in 30 years. It was a treat. We chose it as our October Homeschool bookclub book. In general the parents liked it more than the kids, but many of the kids loved it. We were all struck by the dawn to dust work that the family did, including Almanzo and his siblings. I think many of the parents started thinking "Hmm, 9 year olds doing chores twice a day, what a great idea..." Our kids were wary of that gleam in our eyes.

But along with the useful skills Almanzo learned, and the...more

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Oct 20, 2011 benebean rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children, classics, historical-fiction, animals, cleaness-granny-smiles, could-recommend, favorites, light, comfort-reads

Almanzo is so cute and lovable-- reading this book is like playing with an adorable loving puppy.

And the food descriptions-- made me crave more food than any exercise or episode on the food network.

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May 06, 2013 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: based-on-a-true-story, memoir, nonfiction, chapter-books

Once again my boys were enthralled by the vivid descriptions that Wilder created of life in the late 1800s. This book focuses on the early childhood of Laura's husband Almanzo who lived and worked on a family farm in New York state. Parents should be warned this book starts off really rocky. Wilder relates a tale of how some older boys had beat a teacher to death. Almanzo fears for the new teacher. The new teacher, Mr. Corse, fends off the attack by beating the students back with a bullwhip. It'...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Jennifer Swapp rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

We listened to this book in the car on our drive to CT, ironic that we listened to it in NY, and it takes place in NY, and we listened to Little House int he Big woods on our drive on the Laura Ingalls Wilder highway though MN and WI.
My girls loved this book, and my boys enjoyed it as well. Almanzo was nine in this book, so my girls could visualize what he was like. Madeline begged to move to a farm afterwards, and when I reminded her of the work, and how they complain they do too much work alre...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Penny McGill rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: for-kids

My love of Laura Ingalls Wilder started early. I was able to love the books and endlessly take them out of the library while still enjoying the television series. We recently saw a snippet of the show while my daughter and I were watching tv and I was so surprised by how disdainful she was of the show. She actually asked me to turn it off. What, Pa Ingalls was on that screen and you want me to turn it off? Well, he was not 'Pa' to her and never could be. I remember disliking the actor they chose...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Tracy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: little-house, children

This book is about Almanzo's childhood in upstate New York, and chronicles approximately one year in his life, beginning just before he turns 9, and ending shortly after he turns 10. The Wilders were much wealthier than the Ingalls were. Their farm was firmly established, and their house had multiple rooms, with bedrooms upstairs, and a fancy parlor with wallpaper on the wall. Like the first two books in the series, many of the chapters are almost how-tos, describing in detail how to prepare and...more This book is about Almanzo's childhood in upstate New York, and chronicles approximately one year in his life, beginning just before he turns 9, and ending shortly after he turns 10. The Wilders were much wealthier than the Ingalls were. Their farm was firmly established, and their house had multiple rooms, with bedrooms upstairs, and a fancy parlor with wallpaper on the wall. Like the first two books in the series, many of the chapters are almost how-tos, describing in detail how to prepare and plant a garden, how to make candy, how to build a bobsled, how to thresh, and more.

I only read this book once when I was a child, and remembered none of it, save the first 4 chapters, which I read aloud to my son about 10 years ago in an attempt to read him the entire book. My son was very confused and scared by the first four chapters, which focus mainly on school. The big boys in the school had beaten the previous teacher to death, and now they seem to be planning to do the same with the new teacher. That was too much for my son to handle, so we quit reading the book. Had we kept reading, we would have seen that Almanzo only goes to school in those first four chapters. After that he's staying home from school to help with chores around the farm.

In the book Little House, Long Shadow, Rose remembers her aging father as sitting quietly by the fire each evening eating popcorn, carefully inspecting each kernel while he eats. Young Almanzo is given this same attribute in Farmer Boy. Either he was a life-long careful popcorn eater, or Laura and Rose wanted to capture that part of his personality in this tribute to his childhood.

One thing that I wish had been explained was why Royal, Alice, and Eliza Jane suddenly all headed to boarding school in Malone. When the book opens, the four siblings are walking to the one-room school house near their farm together, but no explanation is ever given for why when school starts up again in the fall the older three are going elsewhere while Almanzo is not.(less)

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Nov 13, 2011 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, historical-fiction, middle-grade

I have no idea whether this is supposed to be the second or third book in the Little House series (the back of one edition says #2, another says #3), but I guess it ultimately doesn't matter, since the book focuses on Almanzo (who grows up to become the author's husband), not the Ingalls family. I read it second.

The book opens with Almanzo heading to school for the first time; he's almost nine years old, living in New York state with his family, and helping out on their farm in his spare time,...more

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Oct 29, 2011 Carin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens, shelf-discovery

Of all the Little House books, this is the only one I have never reread. And I didn't want to. Until I read Shelf Discovery last year, which piqued my interest. Plus it's weird that I have reread a series dozens of times, except for one volume. So I resolved to reread it this year. And as usual I am glad I did.

I have no recollection of this book at all it turns out. While reading it, it felt all unfamiliar and new, not like a reread in the slightest. (I was probably six when my parents first rea...more Of all the Little House books, this is the only one I have never reread. And I didn't want to. Until I read Shelf Discovery last year, which piqued my interest. Plus it's weird that I have reread a series dozens of times, except for one volume. So I resolved to reread it this year. And as usual I am glad I did.

I have no recollection of this book at all it turns out. While reading it, it felt all unfamiliar and new, not like a reread in the slightest. (I was probably six when my parents first read it to me and likely that's the only time I read it.) I have been within 20 miles of Malone, New York, and I kick myself for not having gone to the Wilder farm. The Wilders were quite well off. They had three enormous barns, sheep, cows, horses, goats, chickens, and more. They had a pond for cutting ice (and a place to store it) and woods for cutting logs and they planted multiple crops (potatoes, wheat, corn). This is not like the Ingalls who only have one crop (and the garden) and who have only 1-2 horses and cows at any time. The Wilders have dozens of each. It's probably good, since Almanzo did not turn out as prosperous as his father, that he had a wife who'd grown up with less.

It's interesting that the Wilder's oldest sister was just eliminated. Perhaps because her name was also Laura which would be confusing, perhaps because Laura Ingalls never met her, I don't know, but instead of five siblings, Almanzo has 4 (after the events of this book he had another brother born.) Eliza Jane is stuffy and always does the right thing, Royal isn't around much, but Alice is fun and hardworking. Almanzo really hates school (interesting he later married a schoolteacher) and takes every opportunity to work instead. He helps Father a lot on the farm. I liked the authenticity of how Laura's language changed from the Ingalls books to this one. The children called their father, Father, not Pa, and they occasionally used overly formal language such as "They are younger than I be." You can tell Laura really quizzed Almanzo before writing this book to get small details like that correct.

Another interesting scene to me was when the parents went away for a week, leaving the four children to themselves. The Ingalls did this as well when taking Mary to the blind school. The Wilders ate all the sugar, made ice cream, ate cakes, and generally were gluttonous and poorly behaved, until the last day when they scrambled to clean everything up. That's a stark contrast to the Ingalls who spent the entire time doing all the spring cleaning so it would be done when Ma got home. While the Wilders did certainly work hard, I think less was expected of them, and all the missing sugar was much less of a hardship for them than it would have been for the Ingalls. The Ingalls girls were living closer to the edge of poverty and they knew everyone had to pitch in or they might tumble over. Whereas the Wilders mostly behaved because otherwise they'd get a whipping from Father (with an actual whip, yikes!)

There were some fun stories, such as how the teacher dealt with the big boys who wanted to beat him, what happened when Almanzo asked Father for a nickel, how he got the better of everyone at the sheep shearing, and Almanzo's giant pumpkin. This book I think would appeal to many young boys, although some of the old-fashioned terminology would need to be explained. Almanzo is a real boy, getting into fights and going fishing and wanting to ride horses. It was a sweet book that I'm very glad I finally reread. But it just doesn't have the same emotional resonance for me that the Laura Ingalls books do.(less)

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Oct 26, 2011 Kendra rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites-from-childhood

Read this one with my 6 year old son and we are really enjoying it...this was a favorite when I was a girl...all of the "little House" books were...I am surprised at what huge plot details I forgot....for example, I didn't remember just how Mr. Corse, the seemingly milquetoast teacher, dealt with the big bad boys and was just as surprised as my son when the blacksnake whip came out...of course, by then I was committed, and my son was just as surprised, I think, that I had chosen a book with such...more

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Sep 06, 2011 Meghan R. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, fiction, fiction-kidlit, fiction-historical, reread

Revisited this book for the first time in a while, this time in audiobook format. It still makes me hungry for foods I have never eaten and/or would never eat (apples 'n' onions, ugh!), and I am still disturbed that there were apparently no legal consequences for beating your teacher to death in New York State in the 1860s.

Upon reread, Rose Wilder's interpolations based on her strong libertarian viewpoints stand out to me, particularly in the chapters Independence Day and Farmer Boy, although no...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Why would some one nearing 67 y/o read a book for a 12 year-old? Simple, nostalgia. This book was read to our class when I was in the 5th grade. I had no idea of the name of the book or the author, but the stories stayed with me. All I could recall was the primary subjects name was Almanzo. Thanks to Yahoo and a quick search, I had the information I needed and a copy on order in 5 minutes. Reading it proved a true joy. Granted it is highly idealistic account of the times (there's no mention of t...more

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Apr 06, 2011 Kelly Hager rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the book about Almanzo, who grows up to marry Laura Ingalls. He grew up in New York state, and his family was...well, I don't know if you'd say they're rich, but they're definitely better off than the Ingalls.

There are two recurring storylines in this book. The first is that Almanzo wants a colt to train, but his father is sure that he won't be able to do it right, so he's not even allowed to go NEAR the colts. This breaks Almanzo's heart (but doesn't keep him from visiting the colts eve...more

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Feb 03, 2011 Eniko rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sometimes you just have to read something simple and good. :o)

I really liked rereading this as an adult. I enjoyed it every bit as much as when I was a child. Even more so, because now I noticed things that I had missed before. For example, I appreciate the ending a lot more. I don't think I fully understood its meaning as a child. Also, I can't get over how much Almanzo ate! LOL For a nine-year-old I would imagine his stomach would have burst right open! I was impressed not only by the quantity...more

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Jan 26, 2011 Melissa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, young-adult

Farmer Boy is probably my least favorite of the Little House on the Prairie series. That's not to say it isn't any good, it is, it just is the weakest book out of the series in my opinion.

Wilder diverges from her normal telling of her family, to tell about her husband Almanzo's childhood. His was very different from hers in that he lived on a large successful farm with many brothers and sisters and had quite a few chores. The book starts when he is eight and moves to encompass around a year of h...more Farmer Boy is probably my least favorite of the Little House on the Prairie series. That's not to say it isn't any good, it is, it just is the weakest book out of the series in my opinion.

Wilder diverges from her normal telling of her family, to tell about her husband Almanzo's childhood. His was very different from hers in that he lived on a large successful farm with many brothers and sisters and had quite a few chores. The book starts when he is eight and moves to encompass around a year of his life. It shows him gaining more maturity and being allowed to do harder tasks as he gets older. It also goes into other aspects of his life like interactions with his siblings, school time, and meals that he ate.

The characters, in this case Almanzo and his family, weren't really elaborated on as much. They all were pretty focused on one aspect of their personality (Royal-Dependable, Alice-Kind, Eliza Jane-Bossy, etc.) without diverging too much from the norm. Almanzo acted appropriately for a little boy, but in the book he tended to be quite focused on a few things and these were mentioned over and over.

That wasn't the only repetition though. As much as I enjoyed the food being described, it seemed that every time Almanzo ate he "sighed and tucked in" for more food. I recall reading something similar to that line for each meal described. The rest of the writing was ok, not as good as the rest of the series, but passable. Wilder does include quite a bit of informative detail, like how boots are made and how to saw ice from a lake which I found interesting. One other complaint I would have is that this book jumped from time to time quickly without a real smooth transition. It made it hard to focus sometimes. To note, the writing in this is very mellow and entirely appropriate for children.

Its a wonderful series, and I can see this book appealing more to boys instead of the other girl-based books. It does capture the time well and elaborates on a person that was very much a center of Wilder's life.

Farmer Boy
Copyright 1933
372 pages

Review by M. Reynard 2010 (less)

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Sep 15, 2010 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My kids have been reading through the Little House books. I have read them all many times but it has been years. It was interesting to revisit this one while so deep in the task of homemaking and parenting. I am barely up to the task in this modern world. How would I have fared then?

Brings to mind interesting questions of being enslaved and being free. So much of it comes down to perspective. Some people would look at all the work these people did and say they were enslaved by their land, their...more

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Jan 13, 2013 Tori Turner rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A complete change of direction in this book with not one mention of the Ingalls and their plight in the Wild West to that of the Wilders in New York and little Almanzo Wilder; desperate to be seen as old enough to break colts and be like his father.

Despite finding it difficult to get into initially, mostly due to the sudden change in family situations and characters which disrupts flow, the book is actually my favourite one so far and I can fully understand what a young Laura Ingalls would have...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chapter-book, children-s-books, memoir-biography, read-aloud-to-my-kids

I have always loved this book, but found it even more fun reading it to my daughter. The story is a year in the life of Almanzo Wilder, a young farmer boy and his dream of raising horses and becoming like his father. Like Laura's other books, it is a wonderful glimspe into history, while at the same time telling a wonderful story of life. A great read for boys and girls, and anyone else who wants to read it :).

* Just read it to my 6year old son, and loved it as much as ever.

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Aug 08, 2009 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 th...more

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Dec 27, 2011 Terzah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm going to admit that unlike the other Little House series books, this one I never read as a kid. Why? Well, it was about a boy and I thought that would be boring.

Lucky thing I have a son now, because it meant I finally read this book, which is a snapshot of a year in the life of Almanzo Wilder, who became Laura Ingalls' husband in real life (and in a later book in the series). As with all the other books in the series, it gave a window on how hard people back in that time worked (this one is...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Elena added it · review of another edition

Almanzo Wilder is 9 years old. He's a growing boy and so he's always hungry. Its a good thing his family is has an established farm and is well-respected and well-to-do. They are self-sufficient in earning money and in keeping Almanzo and his 3 siblings in apples, doughnuts, beech nuts, popcorn, roast pork, cider, butter, and pumpkin and mincemeat pies. The descriptions of food, its cultivation and preparation made this my favorite Little House book so far, despite Laura's absence.

The descriptio...more

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Feb 10, 2011 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-with-kids

I tried to sway the girl from reading Little House for a bit, but she demanded Farmer Boy (the last of the series we have in the house). I have to admit, i don't love this book as much as the Ingalls' stories. I suppose some of it is happenstance - a little boy is a slightly less sympathetic character for me, and also, the New England life is just not quite as adventuresome and awe-inspiring as the pioneer life. There is more, though - i don't feel quite the same connection to the characters. I...more

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May 31, 2013 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As a kid, Farmer Boy was always my least favorite of the Little House books. What city-bred, Laura-loving 8 year old wants to hear about hay threshing? But since I now live 45 minutes from Almanzo Wilder's childhood home, I decided to re-read it and found it entirely delightful. Yes, there are some fairly tedious details involving shoe cobbling and bobsled construction, but otherwise, Farmer Boy is an engaging look at farm life in the mid 19th century.

The book opens in the dead of winter and fo...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s, read-in-2011, read-aloud

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It's about Almanzo Wilder, who is Laura Ingalls Wilder's husband. It is about his boyhood. He has a big brother named Royal, a big sister whose name is Eliza Jane, and a big sister whose name is Alice. He wants a colt more than anything. He has a suckling pig named Lucy, who he bought with a half dollar. He has a cousin named Frank, and Frank's father gives him a nickel whenever he asks for one. Almanzo gets a half dollar because he hardly ever asks for one. He gets...more

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