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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
The tension of the question of where Pa is is still so traumatising I was on the edge of my seat even though I knew how it ended // 3,75
Continuing our tradition of reading beloved books aloud to each other, my husband and I finished this one up the other day and were AGAIN amazed by the Ingalls family members, who are evidently impossible to kill. Like, are we SURE they're really buried under their gravestones today? I'm skeptical. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Pa is superhuman. I mean, Come on! The insane experiences that this family went through never cease to boggle the mind. The grasshopper plague of the 1870s was very real. For those curious about the balls of fire: it seems fairly certain that these were cases of ball lightning.
Spoiler
surviving three days buried in a snowbank during a blizzard??
One of the few books I read in elementary school. I still remember bits and pieces of it. I loved this series.
This book was wonderful-very humbling in regards to what the family had to endure when the grasshopers came and destroyed their crops.
Reminds me of the cicadas here in TN!
Reminds me of the cicadas here in TN!
The events of this book pick up shortly after the events at the end of [b:Little House on the Prairie|77767|Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2)|Laura Ingalls Wilder|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1441903581s/77767.jpg|2884161]. It depicts the differences of living in a dugout versus an actual house as well as the differences of living so close to town than living 5-10 miles away. The things that they had to make it through were very interesting, and I often wondered how communication happened with their Norwegian neighbors if the neighbors could not speak or understand English! I hated how abruptly the book ended, but it was an interesting read despite that.
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Aside from Pa's failures to produce the promised wheat crops (he sure talks a helluva game about this in this book) and his need to "walk 300 miles" to find a job, this book features the Ingalls family staying in one place the entire book.
No worries, though. We know how irritating the Norwegians are, how the church folks can't sing in tune, and how the grasshoppers are the root of all evil. Also, Laura is a vindictive little bitch toward one of her classmates and it was kind of fantastic to read.
No worries, though. We know how irritating the Norwegians are, how the church folks can't sing in tune, and how the grasshoppers are the root of all evil. Also, Laura is a vindictive little bitch toward one of her classmates and it was kind of fantastic to read.
We just finished reading On the Banks of Plum Creek, the fourth in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, last night. As I do with every book we read together, I asked the boys what their favorite part was. I was expecting they'd say the cool dugout house, or the gross bloodsuckers in the creek, or maybe even the devastating grasshopper infestation. But both Will & Josh chose the church Christmas party when Laura received a fur cape and muff. You see, the spoiled bully Nellie Oleson only had a fur cape, and it wasn't as pretty as Laura's. They were sooooo glad that Laura got the chance to one-up Nellie and even reenacted the scene where Laura walks past Nellie on her way out of the church and says, "Merry Christmas, Nellie." Though I'm not sure Laura pulled it off with quite as much smug glee and sass as my boys did...
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