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I am writing this review not just to remind you but to remind myself of what we were all once long ago. Before unemployment, wars, and the insanity of our government, America was a little house on the prairie. A promise of free land drove the Ingalls family to leave everything they had in Wisconsin for a fresh start on the wide open prairie lands. Their journey was told through the eyes of little Laura Ingalls. From the woods of Wisconsin the family traveled west to where Indians lived and wild things still run free. Ma was afraid of what awaited them in the new country, but Laura wasn't for Pa had promised Laura that maybe she would get to see a papoose. I first discovered the Little House series when I was very young, and I still peruse through them even now when I am well past the age of innocence, yet still in love with that simplicity of life. Laura's family faced sickness, blizzards, and life's daily hard labors, but she always had her family and the hope of a better tomorrow. All children should be required to read this set of books.
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Little House on the Prairie (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sara Jean, September 4, 2011
I am writing this review not just to remind you but to remind myself of what we were all once long ago. Before unemployment, wars, and the insanity of our government, America was a little house on the prairie. A promise of free land drove the Ingalls family to leave everything they had in Wisconsin for a fresh start on the wide open prairie lands. Their journey was told through the eyes of little Laura Ingalls. From the woods of Wisconsin the family traveled west to where Indians lived and wild things still run free. Ma was afraid of what awaited them in the new country, but Laura wasn't for Pa had promised Laura that maybe she would get to see a papoose. I first discovered the Little House series when I was very young, and I still peruse through them even now when I am well past the age of innocence, yet still in love with that simplicity of life. Laura's family faced sickness, blizzards, and life's daily hard labors, but she always had her family and the hope of a better tomorrow. All children should be required to read this set of books.