Thursday, February 12, 2015

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town.
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  1. KahlaFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:41 PM

    I have read this book many many many times before. I have always loved this book since the day that my grandmother got it for me at Almanzo Wilders supposed farm.

    I don't like the book because...Laura makes Almanzo hard working. Then, just reading Almanzo working, makes me hungry. Basically, after I get hungry Laura starts talking about the delicious sounding food. Then i want to cry because it sounds so deliciously good.

    I do like this book because of the detail. Laura makes the food sound just flat-out scrumptious, she does a really nice job with the detail on the animals. She says this about the three-year-old colts, "Their noses, prickled with a few stiff hairs, were soft as velvet, and on their foreheads the short, fine hair was silky smooth. Their necks arched proudly firm and round, and the black manes fell over them like a heavy fringe."

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  2. GordonFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:48 PM

    Yes I remember very much enjoying the description when reading this story, the donuts were really good sounding!

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  3. AnonymousMarch 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM

    Does the book mostly depend on it's depiction and description, or does it use anything else to grab out to the reader?

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  4. AnonymousMarch 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM

    Does the book mostly depend on it's depiction and description, or does it use anything else to grab out to the reader?

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  5. A UnderwoodMarch 3, 2015 at 2:08 PM

    Nice response! It's amazing you had such a visceral reaction to the writing, especially in re-reading it many times. I've never read any Wilder but your enthusiasm for the story is selling me on that I should give her a try sometime.

    Did you take any of the food descriptions for the fictional food project?

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