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swiss_miss_73 's review for:
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Never read this until much later on from the rest of the series. It was this book that got me interested in learning more about the "real" Laura.
I laugh at all "bad" reviews of this book. It seems the main complaint of most readers is that the book is not really part of the little house series. That it somehow doesn't fit with the rest of Laura's stories. In reality I believe this is probably the most real of all the stories. Clearly Laura's other books were written for children and as such did gloss over many of the true hardships and sadnesses that were part of her growing up years. Some things, such as the death of her brother Freddy must have been too personal for her to contemplate putting in her books and most likely she considered the subject inappropriate for her purposes.
I laugh at all "bad" reviews of this book. It seems the main complaint of most readers is that the book is not really part of the little house series. That it somehow doesn't fit with the rest of Laura's stories. In reality I believe this is probably the most real of all the stories. Clearly Laura's other books were written for children and as such did gloss over many of the true hardships and sadnesses that were part of her growing up years. Some things, such as the death of her brother Freddy must have been too personal for her to contemplate putting in her books and most likely she considered the subject inappropriate for her purposes.