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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
Absolutely loved this book. I only didn't give it a 5-star review because I feel those should be saved for mind-blowingly good books, like "To Kill a Mockingbird." "Understood Betsy" is just one of those easy-to-read classics, in the same vein as "Pollyanna," that leave you feeling warm and fuzzy. It makes me a little sniffly that they don't write children's books like this anymore.
This was a fun little book (probably middle readers, but from before those distinctions were common). I'm on the fence about whether a child would actually enjoy reading it, since it felt more like a treatise on parenting, combined with some fun information on historical daily life. As an adult, though, I found it much more enjoyable than I usually do middle readers books.
This is like totally some kind of Montessori school propaganda, those bastards!!
But it's also really sweet, it's kind of like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or Anne of Green Gables or something, but it's all about how to be self-sufficient and be educated at your own level and have self-confidence and stuff.
Plus applesauce.
But it's also really sweet, it's kind of like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or Anne of Green Gables or something, but it's all about how to be self-sufficient and be educated at your own level and have self-confidence and stuff.
Plus applesauce.
Read this to my 7yo daughter and we both really enjoyed it. There's some old-fashioned language and sometimes passages got a little long, but over all the journey taken by the young female protagonist is great for girls (and boys) of any age to hear.
One of my childhood favorites; probably a large part of what caused me to leave my beloved Oregon for college in Vermont.