A chapter book that is the right level for Andrew at 3. Chapters are 6-8 pages.

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An interesting little read.

Great beginning reading book.

Very cute. They took some of the main stories from the original book and put them into easy-to-read chapters for children.

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.

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.

this book is so cool anyone who loves realistic fiction will love this

Good for kids. I do feel there's a slight awkwardness to how it jumps from book to book. It always bugs me that Jack's death gets to me when I know that he and the Ingalls parted ways much sooner.

L loves the Little House books and got excited when we found this adaptation at the library. Essentially, each chapter in this early reader tells an abridged/simplified version of one of the stories involving Laura and her dog Jack from Laura Ingalls Wilder's original books. We'd already read Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and On the Banks of Plum Creek, the books that feature Laura and Jack, so this was repetitive for us, but that didn't decrease L's enjoyment of it.

A great read with a 6 year old. We laughed, we cried...

They were best friends. Jack would guard their house while they were sleeping. In the daytime he would play with Laura. Jack almost got washed over when they went across the river in the covered wagon. When the river was calm he swam across.