I grew up watching this series on tv and loved the books when I was young. My two older girls have read all the books and my youngest is on the 3rd or 4th one now. So I decided to re-read them as well.
This is the saga of Laura Ingalls and her family. This is actually the second book in the series. Laura and her family leave the Big Woods and head for the open country of the west. Pa feels like the woods have become too crowded and wants to be somewhere that he can hunt enough meat for his family and not be covered up by neighbors. So they head west into Indian Territory. Almost immediately they encounter problems when they try to cross a stream that almost takes their wagon. But they make it through. Once they reach a good spot with water nearby and plenty of game, Pa tells them that they are going to settle here. He builds a barn for the horses, a house for the family and they begin to live and grow up on the prairie. Life was a struggle for them. There are wild animals, wildfires, sickness and few to no doctors, Indians and the constant threat of injury.
My kids were struck by the differences of life then and now. They were awed that the girls did not have their own rooms. What do you mean the whole family slept in one room? What about the bathroom? No stove? How did they do that? They appreciated what they have a whole lot more after they read the books. Life was so dangerous, even when they were not doing things we would consider dangerous. These books are timeless and I would recommend them to anyone from about 2nd grade and up.
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