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A chapter book that is the right level for Andrew at 3. Chapters are 6-8 pages.
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Little House Chapter Books: Laura #1
The Adventures of Laura & Jack
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Almanzo shares a wonderful Christmas with his extended family on their farm in New York.
null pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1997
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null pages, Paperback
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February 1, 1998 by Scholastic
- ISBN
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9780590254144
- ASIN
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0590254146
- Language
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English
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An interesting little read.
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Great beginning reading book.
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Very cute. They took some of the main stories from the original book and put them into easy-to-read chapters for children.
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I enjoy reading these with my daughter who is 4!
They’ve been a nice way to introduce her to shorter chapters and the little house series minus some of the other stuff she won’t yet understand.
They’ve been a nice way to introduce her to shorter chapters and the little house series minus some of the other stuff she won’t yet understand.
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Full disclosure: My copy has the cover for this edition.
First impression, this feels like another The Oregon Trail-style book, but they only travel within the Midwest. Certainly it was still dangerous, but at least they had more freedom to stop and call it quits if they got to a good spot.
Second impression, is this what passes as suspenseful to younger readers? Because maybe it is, but the SECOND CHAPTER in a book called "The Adventures of Laura and Jack" makes it out like Jack drowns in the river and goes on to doggy heaven, only for a "wolf" to chase them down later... and turn out to be Jack.
Not even spoiler-cutting that, since it's like... this early in the book? Are you kidding? Of COURSE the dog's fine. I was even tempted to write that this would've been a better plot point later in the book, but they quickly settle in Kansas, so... nevermind, I guess.
Well, it could have been during their move to Minnesota, which is somewhat soon after Kansas (a few years), when they move into a LITERAL HOLE: their house is dug out of a hill, which feels like the most ridiculous idea ever and not JUST because a stampede threatens the mother and SUDDEN BABY NOBODY MENTIONED CAME INTO EXISTENCE when an ox runs up the hill and smashes a hole in the "roof."
I think that surprised me more than the cattle stampede, that "Oh no, Ma and Carrie!"—wait, WHO'S CARRIE??—that then gets brushed off in the next chapter as "Ma and Pa went to town with baby Carrie." Whatever, I guess! A whole human enters the world, ho-hum. Nothing adventurous about THAT!
On the whole, the book is *otherwise* pretty okay, even though the ending is pretty predictable, given the track record of "stories about animal heroes." Those were just the main things that threw me when reading, the IMMEDIATE DRAMA ABOUT DEATH followed by the LACK OF DRAMA ABOUT BIRTH. (Also, this finally taught me that oxen are cattle; I for some reason kept thinking they were different somehow, haha.)
Good period piece book about historical America, once you get past the rather action-skewed "adventures" they have.
First impression, this feels like another The Oregon Trail-style book, but they only travel within the Midwest. Certainly it was still dangerous, but at least they had more freedom to stop and call it quits if they got to a good spot.
Second impression, is this what passes as suspenseful to younger readers? Because maybe it is, but the SECOND CHAPTER in a book called "The Adventures of Laura and Jack" makes it out like Jack drowns in the river and goes on to doggy heaven, only for a "wolf" to chase them down later... and turn out to be Jack.
Not even spoiler-cutting that, since it's like... this early in the book? Are you kidding? Of COURSE the dog's fine. I was even tempted to write that this would've been a better plot point later in the book, but they quickly settle in Kansas, so... nevermind, I guess.
Well, it could have been during their move to Minnesota, which is somewhat soon after Kansas (a few years), when they move into a LITERAL HOLE: their house is dug out of a hill, which feels like the most ridiculous idea ever and not JUST because a stampede threatens the mother and SUDDEN BABY NOBODY MENTIONED CAME INTO EXISTENCE when an ox runs up the hill and smashes a hole in the "roof."
I think that surprised me more than the cattle stampede, that "Oh no, Ma and Carrie!"—wait, WHO'S CARRIE??—that then gets brushed off in the next chapter as "Ma and Pa went to town with baby Carrie." Whatever, I guess! A whole human enters the world, ho-hum. Nothing adventurous about THAT!
On the whole, the book is *otherwise* pretty okay, even though the ending is pretty predictable, given the track record of "stories about animal heroes." Those were just the main things that threw me when reading, the IMMEDIATE DRAMA ABOUT DEATH followed by the LACK OF DRAMA ABOUT BIRTH. (Also, this finally taught me that oxen are cattle; I for some reason kept thinking they were different somehow, haha.)
Good period piece book about historical America, once you get past the rather action-skewed "adventures" they have.
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this book is so cool anyone who loves realistic fiction will love this
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