Brookfield Friends

Little House Chapter Books: Caroline #4

by Maria D. Wilkes, Doris Ettlinger (Illustrator)

Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, spends time with neighbors, makes a new friend, and attends the Maple Frolic in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Genres: Childrens, Historical Fiction

74 pages, Library Binding

First published January 12, 2000

About the author

Maria D. Wilkes first read the Little House books as a young girl and has been fascinated by pioneer history ever since. She did extensive research on the Quiner, Ingalls, and Wilder families, studied original sources and family letters and diaries, and worked in close consultation with several historians and the Laura Ingalls Wilder estate as she wrote the Caroline Years books. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Peter, and her daughters, Grace and Natalie.

Reviews

[Rosa Cline]

These books are very nice for beginning readers to chapter books that may not be able to have a long attention span to read the longer versions of these books. The chapters in these books are pretty much word for word from the full version of the books.

This one is from the 2nd book in the Caroline series. This one they took a few chapters out that highlighted Caroline going to school and listening to another language and ending up helping her new friend with English. How her mother made the girls new dresses and they went to their first dance at a neighbors very nice house.

A very good book to help teach History lessons of times gone by to beginning chapter book readers