Laura Ingalls Wilder Books

This book is great. Ever since I read ONE of The Laura Ingalls Wilder Series I just can't stop. I have all the books from Laura's great-grandmother to her daughter Rose. They are great books to read!

This is a beautiful Little House wall calander for 1999. The full color pictures by Renee Graef are taken from various books in the "My First Little House Books" series and is perfect for any fan of Little House.

The My First Little House series of picture books illustrated by Renee Graaf are fabulous. The stories are enchantingly adapted from the Laura Ingalls classics and are the perfect introduction for young readers ages 3-8. The soft illustrations in the style of Garth Williams are magical and stand on their own, but paired with the carefully chosen snippets of Ingalls own storytelling, they will capture any reader's imagination and foster a love of all things Little House.

Living in the the woods back in the 1800's is a lot different than living here. I bet if that family came here they would be amazed. Pa is my favorite character. He hunts at night, he goes in to town to get supplies for his family and what about all those stories! Heck, if I ever had to shoot guns and collect sap from trees I would fall asleep during it. My favorite part is when Pa is in the woods alone in the dark and he thinks a tree that looks like a bear is going to kill him. He realizes it's a tree. This is the first Little House book I read and I'd like to read Little House on the Prairie. I hope all you readers read it!

In the fascinating book Frontier Family Caroline Quiner and her hard working family are running their frontier farm with precision and inbetween the tough work they all still find time for fun.Their days are filled with playing tag to feeding the chickens to studying and sewing.Experience frontier life with this wonderful book called Frontier Family.

As a child growing up in the U.S. who read and loved the Little House series, as a mother who loved reading the books years later to my own children and now, working in a ministry with at-risk children in South American, I was excited to see the Little House books are available in Spanish.

The book is faithfully translated and a joy to read but I had a few problems which are important to note. First, reading is not a custom in South America, books are expensive and there are no public libraries available to poor children (at least not where we live in Bogotá, Colombia). So a book that is geared to a 10-yr-old's reading level in the U.S. is likely to be too advanced for a 10-yr-old in South America. I found the translation to be above the reading level of the average 10-yr-old. Perhaps the translator could have used a simpler vocabulary in some areas.

For example, there is very little snow in Latin America and the vocabulary for snow terms could have been simplified since these words are not in common usage.

Also, Latin American countries use the metric system so translating measurements in the U.S. system isn't understandable. For instance, "foot" is not a unit of measurement, to nearly all Latin American kids it's the body part at the end of your leg. Measurements should be given in meters not feet and kilometers not miles or children will be confused.

Also, and this is my personal pet peeve, it's troubling to see English words used in place of Spanish words when there are Spanish words available. For instance, Almanzo's teacher is called Mister Course when the titles Señor or Profesor are more appropriate.

For English-speaking children who want to improve their Spanish vocabulary and grammar, Un Granjero de Diez Años is a great book. For Spanish-speaking children, this book is just as delightful, amusing and memorable as Farmer Boy.

This is another great book by this team of authors who really know how to present information in a lively, easy to read format, with wonderful illustrations! Book features new crafts revolving around themes from the books and the period, time lines of events happening in the world during Laura's time, information about the real life stories of the Ingalls and Wilder families. An enjoyable book for child or adult readers with lots of projects that can be done together. If you have not read the other Collins / Eriksson books, I highly recommend searching though Amazon for the others, they are all fantastic!

Being both a musician and a fan of the "Little House" books, I saw this at the Laura Ingalls Wilder house in Mansfield, MO, in 1977, and simply had to have it (thanks, Mom and Dad!). Each song features a brief (2-3 sentences) background on the composer, as well as the context of its literary appearance in the series. The songbook is a wonderful supplement to the series, and NO, my copy is not for sale! :)

An excellent primer and follow up to the most beloved author of children's books Laura Ingalls Wilder. No young girl in America should be without these books, but the addition of a text that can provide background and biographical information is invaluable. This book does deal with life and death though so it is best for a middle school aged girl or boy as opposed to a youngster who might be upset that their favorite heroine experienced pain. But overall this is a special tool that would be invaluable in both home and classroom alike.

The Iowa story was written to cover the 2 years missing from The Little House series. It is very interesting and includes clear photos. Before this book, very little was known about this period of time. This was after the Ingalls family moved from Walnut Grove. They would return to Walnut Grove 2 years later. In that 2 years they lost their son and had a daughter (Grace Ingalls). Mary also returned to Iowa after she became blind to attend the college for the blind. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Little House.