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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
I am just not a fan of the Little House books. I find them so long and draw out.
This is the second book in the series to make me cry while reading it aloud to my daughter (Farmer Boy being the other), but it is a VERY long winter and parts of the book dragged as a result. I still really enjoyed it.
Laura originally titled this "The Hard Winter", but the editor/publisher thought it sounded too... hard. Well, that's what it was! Everyone was starving and freezing and depressed. It's a wonder they didn't come out of it with post-traumatic stress syndrome. Even with the first snowfalls we've had this week, it's hard to imagine living without heaters, cars, etc. The girls and I wished we could jump in and give them food and blankets.
Always fun reading about De Smet and the few mentions of HURON!! And fun to see the author Laura already building up Almanzo's character for the reader to accept him when he and Laura inevitably get married... aww, she loves him!
Always fun reading about De Smet and the few mentions of HURON!! And fun to see the author Laura already building up Almanzo's character for the reader to accept him when he and Laura inevitably get married... aww, she loves him!
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Read this aloud to my children. It was a fun read. We had to look up quite a few terms we didn't know like saleratus which is baking soda so that was interesting.
Loved the whole series! One of my favorites growing up.
This one certainly delivered the most emotion, so far, in the series. Despair, fear, frustration, fear, near-madness, fear - all the things that would come with living through a long, brutally cold winter while almost starving, and barely subsisting.
The problematic issue of how "Indians" were thought of, and talked about commonly in that time, continues in this book. Suffice it to say, Mrs. Ingalls really hates and fears anyone that doesn't have the same colour of skin as she does.
This, of course, is hardly the only novel written in the not-so-distant-past that displays that kind of racism and intolerance. I don't think the books should be shunned for that, but they should also not be read without a huge caveat, and much discussion.
The problematic issue of how "Indians" were thought of, and talked about commonly in that time, continues in this book. Suffice it to say, Mrs. Ingalls really hates and fears anyone that doesn't have the same colour of skin as she does.
This, of course, is hardly the only novel written in the not-so-distant-past that displays that kind of racism and intolerance. I don't think the books should be shunned for that, but they should also not be read without a huge caveat, and much discussion.
adventurous
medium-paced