Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
Little House on the Prairie is the second book in the Laura Years series.
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I have read this book in the past and it is a book that I just love no matter how many times I read it. This and Farmer Boy are books that allow me to read about what I wish I could experience. I know that those times are hard but Almanzo and Laura make it seem so easy.
ReplyDeleteThe sentences are simple and I would like more description about certain things but I think that adding more description would also change the way the story was set up, since it seems like it was purposely set up to be simple.
Honestly, I want to learn more about Laura and Baby Carrie, not the house and her life. That's one of my biggest problems with this book. I've read it so many times that I've read enough about how she lived, so, for some reason, I feel that if I keep reading it than I will learn something else about Laura that I didn't catch before.
I have read this book as well and have enjoyed every minute of it. It makes me feel like I am part of the book even though I am not.
ReplyDeleteWho was your favorite character and why? What was your favorite part of the book?
Honestly, I don't know if I have a favorite character anymore. The first time I read this book it was probably Laura but now I like all the characters, including Baby Carrie even though she is only mentioned and never really talked about.
DeleteMy favorite part is when the Indians were doing their war cry. That's my favorite part because I feel like Laura did a good job at showing how Ma, Pa, Mary, and her felt.
My favorite part story wise was when Mr. and Mrs. Scott (or whoever the doctor people were) came to help Laura and her family through that sickness they had.
Who do you ladies think this book was written for? Who is the intended audience? Could it have stayed true to that audience with what you want from the story? Could you write a "big kid" version? With all the detail and sentence structure that you want, but still in her style and true to the time period? Would you have to do a lot of research about living then first? Or, would you need to try to live that way?
ReplyDeleteI think that the intended audience was for little kids. I think it might have, but I don't really know.
DeleteI could write a big kid version and I would need to do research and live that way to truly understand what it was like.