Great book! Great for boys and girls aged 5-9

The whole family loved this book. Almonzo inspired us to even get pigs.

Adding all my unlogged books for the reading challenge.

First time I've read this book in years, and it was amazing. So much detail about farming and the life of the Wilders in the mid 1800s, that I felt it could be used as a manual about farming today.

LIW always puts so much detail of the daily life of her family and now the Wilders into her books, they make fascinating reading at any age.

This is our current read aloud in my classroom. It's a hit!

It's slow going with reading only a chapter a day, but this book is a hit. I love the way that simple book about a very different, far simpler time is so appealing to children. They find it exciting in a quiet way - no need for thrills. I love that.

12/4
I am constantly amazed at how much kids love Laura's books. You'd think I wouldn't be surprised by now - but I am. I mean, really, her books are nothing like currently published books. By comparison they are tame and lacking in action. Yet, over and over again, children love, love, love them. My only problem now is what to read aloud next. It's always hard to follow up a fantastic book.

Though I have read this story many times to my kids as my family grew up over the years, I had a hankering to revisit the "Little House" world and remember what charmed me in the past. To my joy, the charm remained strong, and the perspective of a young boy growing up on a farm in New York in the late 1800s still speaks to my weary soul in the modern world. Beautifully honest and gentle to the spirit, the story relives a past that we may never know again, but I can imitate the love that made his family so good and strong.

OK, sure, it's a kid book. A kid book that am totally enthralled with! I can feel the comfort and peace of "the barns," the security of a cellar and attic full of food, enough food for a year. Food that was sown and grown and harvested by themselves and by hand. Food for not only the family but for the livestock. Even without modern conveniences it is a lifestyle to be coveted. I think I'll read it again. And again.

This story follows the life of Almanzo Wilder, the husband of Laura Ignalls, who was the star of the first book in this series. The description says that it is #6 in the series, but it is actually #2. There is not much of a storyline in this book either. Mostly just character following and detailing how life on a farm was back in the day. I found it harder to hold my attention than Little House In The Big Woods. Still good though. Excited for #3 Little House on the Prarie.

I thought I would enjoy this book, because I have 3 young boys. But I had a hard time with it. I found myself so bored for most of it. I don't know if that's because I've been reading too much Little House and am burnt out on it, or if it's because I just genuinely found it boring.

Family read aloud. the kids really enjoyed it!

I read this to my children but enjoyed it so much myself, I added it to my read books. The story of the boy Laura Ingalls Wilder would one day marry. So many details about life on a farm. Many times we all didn’t understand the details but would often look up pictures of what process from the farm was being described. It transformed us back into a time of hard work and honest fruits of your labor with a sweet family.

I liked this one and somehow think we never read this before despite reading lots of Laura Ingalls Wilder books growing up. Fun to read a new to me book. Like all of her books, they're good bedtime books and relaxing.

A line that got me:
A farmer depends on himself, and the land, and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm.