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Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)

Laura Ingalls Wilder,

Garth Williams (Illustrator)

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May 12, 2017 Audrey rated it liked it

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

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

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