Searching for Laura Ingalls

by Christopher Knight, Meribah Knight, Christopher G. Knight (Photographer)

First-hand observations, personal reflections, and full-color photographs trace a family visit to the sites described in the "Little House on the Prairie" books.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History, Travel, Picture Books, Childrens, Juvenile

48 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

See Christopher Knight for the author of works on the Templars and alternate history.

Reviews

[HeavyReader]

I didn't realize when I requested this book on BookMooch that it's a kid's picture book.

I thought it was going to be about an adult who goes searching for Laura Ingalls and learns some things...things about him or herself, if not about Laura Ingalls.

Instead, a upper middle class Eastcoast tween who is obsessed with Larua Ingalls drives around in an RV with her family, and they visit places where Ingalls lived as a child.

We don't get any new information about Laura Ingalls, but we do get several full color photos of the tween (Meribah Knight) looking pensively off into the distance.

My favorite part of the book is when Meribah goes swimming in Plum Creek, just like Laura Ingalls did. Meribah wears her clothes, just like Laura Ingalls did. Meribah even gets a leech on her foot, just like Laura Ingalls did!

I might have liked this book better if I had read it when I was seven.

[Becky]

This reads very much like the essay that every kid has to write on the first day back from school "what I did on my summer vacation"

Except this kids parents are writers and they have a publisher. the father is a professional photographer for National Geographic so instead of cursive writing and wide ruled paper they made a nice little book out of it .
it was definitely worth the five minutes it took to read and I'm sure that this summer vacation will provide many memories for this little girl

[Jenifer Dale]

This was a cute and interesting read. It was sad to see that everything they built besides the trees was gone, but obviously that is what would happen because of the time passing and development, but this was written in a really sweet way through both the eyes of the family and then the diary of Mirabeh. It also showed wonderful pictures of the area and it's inspiring me to want to visit a few of these places.

[Laura]

I love this exploration of a little girl trying to vie Laura Ingalls Wilder as she visits a few of her homes. Great for young readers to see different locales.

[Lynda]

Colorful photos of various Laura Ingalls Wilder historic home sites and museums accompany the text written by a young girl and her mother as they read the novels and explore the sites in the early 1990's.

[L Frost]

If you just look at the pictures, the book is okay. But the writing is amateurish. Granted it is supposed to be a children's book, but it reads more like a parent who wants attention for their own child. Too many other interesting books about LIW to spend time on this one.

[Jen]

I am a huge Laura Ingalls Wilder fan, but reading about a girl tracing the footsteps of Laura with her parents on a journey many years ago just didn't appeal to me and hold my interest.

[Lauri]

Enjoyed it. These were more casual fans so it was interesting to read how they view the trip rather than as fan girls. I did like that they traveled by RV.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Nice for those who wish they could make the trip, but will never do it. I could have used less of the sibling nonsense and more historical information.

[Mckinley]

On the trail of her life, visiting places she wrote about in her books.