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The adventures ofLaura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on theprairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in alittle house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pabuilds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door.Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in thecreek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle.Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard,but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome thesetroubles.
And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder'sbeloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House bookshave been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse intoAmerica's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettablestory.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the Wisconsin woods in 1867. She wrote the Little House books based on her own experiences growing up on the Western frontier. Just like the characters in her stories, Laura and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest as they moved from place to place. She and her husband, Almanzo, finally settled down in Mansfield, Missouri, where she lived until she was ninety years old.
The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
JINC'S CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB,
By A Customer
This review is from: On Banks Of Plum Creek (Hardcover)
This book captured our attention, but some club members thought the book was just "okay." We liked many aspects of the book. We liked the good descriptions of nature and people such as the one about Nellie Olesen who we thought was asinine. We also liked how the characters really cherished things that are common to us like candy. It made us realize how lucky we are. Nature plays a huge role in this story, and it made us realize how powerful yet precious nature is. The characters in the story cared for nature unlike today when we pollute our environment. Families back then had a totally different life style than we have now. In our world today it seems there are two equal sides: inside and outside. To the Ingalls there were two completely unequal sides. Outside was much greater than inside. We had one big criticism of the book. The Ingalls family seemed too perfect compared to modern families. We thought it was a little fake how everyone was always so loving and never fought. Like many true stories, this one doesn't really have just one plot or story line. It just goes from one event to the next. All in all, though, it was a good story.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just Like the TV Show Little House on the Prairie,
By cheeto1 (michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On Banks Of Plum Creek (Hardcover)
Remember that show "Little House on the Prairie"? Well, this is the book that it's all about. Here is the family: Pa, Ma, Mary 8, Laura 7, and Carrie 2. Baby Grace isn't born yet in this book. All their childhood adventures happen here: First day of school, mean Nellie Oleson, party with their friends, and their first real house with a doorknob! Through anything that ever happens, they know they have each other. That's why even though some things go terribly wrong, it is an adventure to them. Even so, by the end of this book, I wished they had never moved from their "Little House in the Big Woods". By the way, this is a true story. It covers approximately 2 years.The next book in the series, By the Shores of Silver Lake, takes place about 4 years later when Laura is about 13. This large gap makes watching the show enjoyable because there is a long time period not covered in the books and these are things that could have happened during that unrecorded time. It is fun to read real history and this book is one of the best. Find out just what people do when home is a hole in a hill. What's it like to go to school in your bare feet when most people don't have shoes? What do you do when a fireball rolls into your house? What do you do for fun when TV's haven't been invented, the family owns one book, and oh yeah, there are no toys? Read this book and find out!
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On the banks of plum creek,
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This review is from: On Banks Of Plum Creek (Hardcover)
Dig in it ... After all, I recommend you to read On the Banks of Plum Creek. Everyone that can read would like On the Banks of Plum Creek. Mostly 10 & up would like it the most. Both boy/men & girls/ladies would like On the Banks of Plum Creek. People that don't like to read would not like to read On the Banks of Plum Creek. Can you see the door, did you go inside, are you in the house.
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