A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays

A Dear Little Girl #4

by Amy Ella Blanchard

Edna Conway spends a a good old-fashioned Thanksgiving on her grandmother's farm.

Genres: Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Thanksgiving

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

1856-1926

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Edna’s Thanksgiving fun

This was such a good Thanksgiving story. I love to hear about old-fashioned holidays like that. It reminds me of when My family went to my Grandma’s house. Very good.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an enjoyable children's story from the turn of the century.

[Melanie Sorensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very sweet

This is a sweet and old fashioned little book. I enjoyed it a lot, especially once I was a few chapters in. Perfectly clean and wholesome and refreshing.

[Lynna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Old-fashioned and charming

[Jessie (Saffity) · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very sweet story about a young girl going to visit family for Thanksgiving, getting sick, and having an extended holiday. She makes a number of friends, and influences the group to start a committee before heading home. Listened to this on librivox.org

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sweet old fashioned story

A simple, yet entertaining, story from a time long past that's well worth the time it takes to read. I enjoyed reading this sweet tale.

[fruitcake · Rating 1 out of 5]

A little girl spends Thanksgiving on her Grandma’s farm. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting. The holiday itself was a small sliver of the book and the rest was taken up by the little girl playing with the cats and chatting with her cousins. I didn’t mind the old-fashioned perspective, but a lot of this book felt like filler.

[Roberta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old-fashioned and outdated, the dear little girl is wholesome and good.

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saccharine sweet, naively written Victorian era americana. No bombs, no zombie apocalypse, the only bad guy is an old (misunderstood) grumpy mcgrumperton.

Interesting side note: besides the nostalgia, it was interesting to me to get glimpses of home life before electricity/refrigeration. At one point it was mentioned that the cottage cheese (homemade) hadn't gone off and could still be eaten for dinner. The butter and milk had to be carried from the spring house to the kitchen. The girl assigned this chore was a bound orphan...bound into service because her parents had the bad taste to die and leave her destitute.

Read the free kindle version and it was surprisingly good, very few typesetting errors.

[LittleDeadRedGoddessPersephone · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a sweet story written in the early 1900's about a sweet little girl who visits her Grandma with her family during the Thanksgiving week. The story is sweet and little Edna is as the book says a dear little girl. There were a few sad parts including a little girl who I is bound to her Grandparents was a servant as she is a poor orphan but even with that story is good. The book is a lesson in kindness and in the ways of the past. If you are looking for a book about simpler times then this is for you. It also is a sweet family Thanksgiving story.

[Ngdecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

My copy said this was written in 1916, so it was rather old-fashioned. I really enjoyed reading it because of that. The characters were charming and the story was sweet. The children in the story were not always perfect, so seemed very likeable. I downloaded the other books in this series and will look forward to reading them. This made a nice change from my other books.

[Amy Griffith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute story that isn't just made to be read at Thanksgiving. It's probably best for children about ages 8-10. It's mostly a book for girls but would be interesting for boys who really enjoy reading.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute book about going to grandma's farm in the country for Thanksgiving. A taste of what it means to be a little girl living in the city with money vs a little girl brought from the orphanage to serve on the farm. Easy sweet read.

[Heather Truckenmiller · Rating 4 out of 5]

charming!