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Originally reviewed at Jayne's Books.
Read this book over the course of a month and quite honestly, I should have finished this book sooner, but due to the fact that I focusing on basically one book for the past month, I basically ignored this one. While this was probably the second book that Wilder wrote, it felt like it was her first that she wrote, due to some minor grammatical issues that I had in the early part of the book; some of it didn't seem to flow properly, but overall it is a nice in ...more
Read this book over the course of a month and quite honestly, I should have finished this book sooner, but due to the fact that I focusing on basically one book for the past month, I basically ignored this one. While this was probably the second book that Wilder wrote, it felt like it was her first that she wrote, due to some minor grammatical issues that I had in the early part of the book; some of it didn't seem to flow properly, but overall it is a nice in ...more
More magic.
I can't say enough how much I love these books and the little gentle lessons I am hoping my boys are picking up as we read this. This is the moment I waited for as a mom for so long, except I thought it would happen with Eve, but she is still too young, but Davey and Gordon are still young enough to love it.
When we started this book and learned that the Ingalls family was moving away from the Big Woods, Gordon cried (like tears and all) and said: But they had such a good life in the ...more
I can't say enough how much I love these books and the little gentle lessons I am hoping my boys are picking up as we read this. This is the moment I waited for as a mom for so long, except I thought it would happen with Eve, but she is still too young, but Davey and Gordon are still young enough to love it.
When we started this book and learned that the Ingalls family was moving away from the Big Woods, Gordon cried (like tears and all) and said: But they had such a good life in the ...more
While there is much to like in this book, the depiction of Native Americans (nuanced and progressive when the book was originally published, but broad and offensive now) is enough to keep me from recommending it as independent reading for a child. It might have value in a classroom setting, especially if compared with the same story from the point of view of a Native American child (e.g., The Game of Silence).
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