Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3) in Never too Late to Read Classics

May 12, 2017 Audrey rated it liked it

Shelves: own-hard-copy, audiobooks, drama-romance-contemporary, classics

3.5 stars

I read this a couple times as a little kid a very long time ago. I found it a tad slow then.

Laura is about 6-7 here. The family leaves Wisconsin and heads off into Kansas. They pick a random spot and build a house. The first half of the book is building the house (a log cabin)—the walls, roof, floor, chimney, etc. (I’m sure an outhouse was built in there somewhere.) People today will look at all this in shock at how unsafe everything is. People back then were like, “danger, shmanger.”

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Oct 10, 2011 midnightfaerie rated it really liked it

Shelves: informational, childrens

Am reading these again with my three sons. It's not their favorite book series ever, but I loved them as a kid and feel like there's a lot to learn about the pioneers and Indians in these books.
Eventually we'll go on a field trip to a place called Hale Farm and Village to see first hand how the pioneeers lived, and I think they'll enjoy that. I'm enjoying sharing these stories with them.

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is an exquisite set of books that I cherished growing up. ...more

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Mar 08, 2012 midnightfaerie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens

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Feb 19, 2012 Zuzana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, children-s-books, adventure, historical-fiction, 2015-challenge

If I read it as a child I guess I would have found it really boring. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot happening in this story but the way it is presented is just so unexciting and boring. As an adult I appreciate the description of day-to-day life of a pioneer family in 1880s. The anti-Indian sentiments are significant for the era when the story takes place - but they're expressed in a way that I would definitely not allow a child to read this book alone without proper explanation of what is wr ...more

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