Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years

by Cynthia Rylant, Jim LaMarche (Illustrator)

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote nine Little House books about her childhood growing upon the western frontier. But there were two years she didn't write about, two missing years that take place between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake.Now, Newbery Award-winning author Cynthia Rylant has imagined what those lost Little House years were like, based on Laura's unpublished memoirs. The result is the first Little House novel about Laura as a young girl in almost 60 years, and a wonderful addition to the classic series.

When the grasshopper plague returns to Plum Creek, Pa knows all the crops will be destroyed again. He decides to take the family east to Burr Oak, Iowa, where he has found work running a hotel. But Laura longs to return to the tall-grass prairie and the unsettled west, to a place where Pa can play his fiddle in the open air and where she can feel free again.

Old Town in the Green Groves continues the story about Laura Ingalls -- a story whose wonder and adventure have delighted millions of readers.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Classics, Young Adult

164 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature. A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers; several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog.

Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers.

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Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although Cynthia Rylant’s featured narrative certainly manages to successfully enough capture both Laura Ingalls Wilder’s writing style and a historically accurate feeling and sense of time and place (and yes, Jim LaMarche’s accompanying artwork is also very much aesthetically similar to the incomparable Garth Williams with regard to his expressiveness and loving attention to fine detail), personally and emotionally, I have in fact and indeed felt extremely and lastingly uncomfortable reading Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Lost Little House Years. For while I have certainly found it sufficiently interesting and educationally enlightening to discover details regarding the Ingalls family’s life between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake (the two years when they were managing a hotel in Burr Oak, Iowa), considering that during this time, Caroline Ingalls gave birth to a son who only managed to live for a few months and that Laura Ingalls Wilder seems to have deliberately refused to write about this tragic and painful episode, well and in my opinion, Cynthia Rylant should have respected this and should NOT have penned a story based on the Ingalls family’s sojourn at Burr Oak, that Rylant should have respected the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder obviously did not want to, did not feel up to writing about in particular her brother Charles Frederick’s birth and early death.

And yes, even though Little Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Lost Little House Years reads flowingly and interest retaining, I for one do NOT think this novel should in fact have ever been published and that Cynthia Rylant kind of disrespects Laura Ingalls Wilder’s memory by writing and making public a story that the latter obviously had not wanted to be told to her readers, to the public (because really and truly, if Laura Ingalls Wilder had indeed wanted her readership to know about her baby brother’s life and early death and the family’s time in Burr Oak, Iowa, she obviously would have written about this).

[Wendy · Rating 2 out of 5]

It could certainly have been worse, but I think this was an odd thing to write in the first place, and I hoped for better from Rylant (who I do think was a good choice, if the publisher really wanted it). The writing is dumbed down in a way not seen in the early LIW books. LIW did well at increasing the reading level with each book, but this one seems to fall somewhere between the first and second (if not lower). I also felt there were many distracting incidences of "telling instead of showing"--I never realized what a master LIW was at show-not-tell until I read this attempt.

[Tarissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this to be a perfectly charming read. It was refreshing to be able to visit the Ingalls family in never-before-read adventures (at least, not included in the original Little House books). This volume is intended to cover the two missing years that transpire between 'On the Banks of Plum Creek' and 'By the Shores of Silver Lake'. Much takes place that young readers (and adult readers alike) would miss out on by reading only Laura's original books.

New life comes into the family, sweet new little baby faces. And tragic death comes too. The Ingalls family has new roads to travel down, and new trials to bear. (On a more humorous note, Laura and her siblings have to bear the annoying Steadam boys... but we rejoice with the little Ingalls when the Steadams receive their due!)

My favorite scene may just be when Pa sends Laura out for a doctor to help Ma during a time of illness. But Pa has forgotten, in the midst of his worries concerning Ma's health, that the creek is overflowing and there's no way for Laura to cross safely. But she accomplishes the task anyways. I could almost see the surprise showing on Pa's face when Laura returned home!

Overall, this book turned out to be an informative and enjoyable read for me. (Assuming that everything written in the story is based on true facts, I ended up learning quite a bit more about young Laura Ingalls Wilder.)

[Tracy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book fills in the "missing years" of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The events take place between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake, telling the story of when the Ingallses moved east to Burr Oak, Iowa, to run a hotel. The events are all real, but these are the parts of her childhood that Laura deliberately excluded from her series because they were too sad and tragic, and because they didn't fit in with the overall narrative of the pioneering story she wanted to tell.

I wouldn't consider this a necessary read, and certainly don't think it should be a chronological part of the series for a child reading the series for the first time. The series stands better on its own without this book. The writing level is for a child younger than the way Laura wrote On the Banks of Plum Creek, so this book doesn't fit in stylistically.

Also, I had a few peeves with this story. The family is sometimes referred to in the third person, which never happens in the series--"The Ingallses' wagon came to a stop." Pa has nicknames for Mary and Carrie--Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie--which seems too big a liberty for the author/editor to take. And Ma is much sweeter to Laura in this book than in the books that Laura wrote herself.

[Iben · Rating 4 out of 5]

Old Town in th Green Groves fill in part of the gab between two of the classic little house books: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" and "By the Shores of Silver Lake".

As I have read the later books and also read about Laura other places I already knew parts of what had to happen in this book but that didn't take the joy of reading it away from me.
I was a little disapointed when the book didn't close the gab completely. We didn't get to hear about (spoiler from "By the Shores of Silver Lake") the family coming down with the sickness that made Mary blind. But the book still gave me something I felt I could relate to the stories Laura wrote about herself.

It was writen almost in the style of Laura herself. A couple of times there was a frase where I couldn't help thinking that Laura would have put it differntly but overall it fits the mood of the beloves series. What helped me was just to forget that Laura didn't write it and just treat it as I would any other Laura-book.

What also makes this book a little differnt that the real series is the fact that what happens is more serious. I would have liked the book to have focused a little more on these things, even if it meant moving a bit away from the original series.

I would probably give this book 3,5 stars if I could, but since I can't I decided to round up in sted of down as I usually would because I simply feel sad taking stars away from Laura-books.
I recomend this book to any fan of the little house books. If you feel like it would be a waste of time to read this since it obviously is a childrens book (and in my oppinion more so than the original series), I would just say to you: read it anyway. It is so short it will be done in no time and you will know a little more about dear Laura.

[Kathryn Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Laura Ingalls Wilder left behind only a dozen pages of memories about her family’s time spent in Burr Oak, Iowa. Cynthia Rylant used those pages to write this novel about what life might have been like for the Ingalls family. Cynthia Rylant is one of my favorite children’s authors so I was very interested to read this. It is a dear tribute to Laura Ingalls and all that her family endured during these years that were undocumented in the Little House series. I thought Rylant did justice to Wilder and her books.

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

The missing "Little House" book is reconstructed by Cynthia Rylant on the basis of unpublished documents. During this two year period, Laura's family must move to Iowa to pay off debts. Moments of great tragedy (the death of a baby brother) are matched by moments of great peace. Some reviewers have complained that the style does not match that of Laura Ingalls Wilder, but I feel that Cynthia Rylant has done a good job.

[Andi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read this before - just once, not the countless times I've read the original series - but our camping trip is in the process of getting rained out, so when I realized our campground was only about 8 miles from Burr Oak, you know I was going to stop by the LIW museum there, and of course I had to pick up a copy of the book and re-read.

The story follows the facts of the Ingalls family as far as they are known during the gap between the events of On The Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake. It was a difficult and often unhappy time for the family, including more lost crops, illness, and the death of Laura's baby brother, Freddie, (likely part of the reason Laura skipped those years in the first place). The book does a good job of not shying away from difficult subjects, although at times it did seem almost emotionless - surely they would have been a little more affected by some of these events? But then again, in The Long Winter, they spend all of one page actually upset about near-starvation, so maybe that's in keeping with the original books.

The writing was not bad, by any means, but it was noticeably different than the original series. Some of this is surely due to the fact that it was written by two very different people some 70 years apart, but there were also some significant stylistic differences that felt jarring to me. For example, a lot of Pa's dialogue felt wrong - the way he regularly called each girl by pet names (in the original series, only Laura ever had pet names, which helped to emphasize that she was Pa's special helper), or when he multiple times described things as "blasted" (and Ma didn't step in to say "Language, Charles," as she aways did in the original series.

Judging the book solely on its own merits, I'd give it four stars - it's a solid piece of MG historical fiction. But it was explicitly written and marketed as a new addition to the Little House series, and on that basis, I have to bump it down to three. It just doesn't fit terribly well, writing-wise, with the original series. Cynthia Rylant is a very good author, no question, but she admits herself in the afterword that she didn't read the books until she was an adult - it seems a lifetime fan with a thorough knowledge of the books and an intuitive feel for Laura's prose style might have been a better choice for this project.

[Mary Harley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was written by Cynthia Rylant, based on the only two years of Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood that she herself did not write about. Apparently Laura had about 12 pages of unpublished text which Rylant supplemented with interviews and research.
I could easily see why Laura did not write about this time - in two years she almost lost her Ma to illness, her family lost the farm to grasshoppers (again), her baby brother was born and later died, she had the measles, and she moved three times.
Although this book was good for me to read (in just two hours) to fill the hole in my needing to know everything about the Ingalls family, the story lacked Laura's own gift for colorful, descriptive text, emotions behind the history, and detailed engagement with the story. The dialogue seemed flat and merely reporting each event quickly without much embellishment to create a fluid story.
This book won't take you much time if you want to learn the rest of the story of Laura and is enjoyable - but you won't immerse yourself in the life of her family the way you might have in the rest of the original series.

[♡ella grey♡︎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helped me understand a bit more of the daily living aspect of colonialism and country/wooded American living in the 1800s.
Still pretty mid—didn’t have a big connection to it.

[Anastaciaknits · Rating 4 out of 5]

Old Town in the Green Groves fill in part of the gab between two of the classic little house books: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" and "By the Shores of Silver Lake", and is not a "real" Little House book. But, again, I read the entire series so I wanted to read all the books now considered part of the Little House family.

I actually really liked this one more than I was expecting - These First Four Years was so awful in so many ways that I really didn't have high hopes for this one, yet I actually liked this one more than the last Little House book. It's not written by Laura, but definitely has the same feel/flavor, and the characters are just exactly the same. Ma & Pa are there wonderful selves, you get to see their cousins & a whole other life not previously seen in other books, and there's a horrible tragedy that the family lives through and it's just marvelous to see how they all manage. If you like the Little House series and haven't read this one, just skip "These First Four Years" and read this one, instead (but do read them in chronological order, as I wish I had but didn't).

[Jennybeast · Rating 1 out of 5]

Cynthia Rylant totally missed the boat on this one. She added a super saccharine piety, in what I can only assume was an attempt to make the book seem old fashioned. Has she ever read Laura's work? She seemed to miss the honesty that's present in the real series, and the no-nonsense response to survival amidst trying and sometimes tragic circumstances. While none of the little house spin-offs can really hold a candle to the original series, this was the only book that I found truly awful.

[Olivia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not seem like Laura, poorly written, compared to other little house books.

[Jennifer Hunt]

I'm glad I read it, but unlike the other Little House books that I have read over and over throughout my life, I don't see myself reading it again. Cynthia Rylant does an admirable job with an incredibly challenging assignment--writing a book to fill in the gap between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake. This was a part of her life that Laura herself wrote little about, so to try to create a whole novel off 12 pages of source documents is certainly an uphill task. I wish that the characters and their worldview had felt more authentic to the original books.

[Jo Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is based on a couple of pages written by Laura Ingalls Wilder but never published. The story takes place between 1875-77, in a small town in Iowa called Burr Oak. According to the Foreward, Laura said Burr Oak was a lovely place and she had many nice times there, but I somehow got the idea that this isn't true. They had lost the farm on Plum Creek due to two years of grasshopper infestation. Not able to make a living there, Pa sold the farm, breaking Laura's heart; she had a deep love for the prairie and I think, like Charles, wasn't happy living in a town. Once in Burr Oak, the family lived and worked in a hotel and while one never reads any real negative comments in an Ingalls Wilder book, it seemed Caroline and the girls were overworked there. Plus the owner's sons were brats and caused no small amount of trouble for the girls. Plus there was a saloon in the hotel and Charles saw enough misery there to finally move the family into an apartment over a grocery store. By the end of the book the family is finally on the move again, now to the shores of Silver Lake.
The author, Cynthia Rylant, got into the cadence of Laura's writing pretty well and only a few times did I feel Ms. Rylant's presence. If you are a fan of the books, I would put this one between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake. If you've never read it or even heard of it (I just discovered it the other day, 50 years after reading the originals) and I enjoyed it. If you are gifting a child these books for the first time, do include Old Town in the Green Groves. It might not come in the box sets, so seek it out. It's worth it.

[Kristina Rinard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very sweet book. It maintained the integrity of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and characters very well, which is a tall order to follow. Cynthia Rylant is one of my favorite modern-day authors and I am a die-hard LHOTP fan (the books, not the show-obvi) so I had high expectations for this book. My daughters and I picked it up when we traveled to De Smet, SD to check out the town from Little Town on the Prairie. It chronicles Laura's life between the books of On the Banks of Plum Creek (where she lived in MN) and On the Shores of Silver Lake (where the Ingalls family eventually settled in SD). Laura herself did not write about this time in which she and her family moved temporarily to Iowa. It was a sad time for the family, as there was the birth and death of little brother Freddie and a series of illnesses that struck the family. This goes from their home in MN to their home in IA and stops once they decide to leave Iowa. Cynthia Rylant did a great job on the research of the book, as many of the stories in there were ones that Laura herself had written about in journals and other writings. The ONLY reason for 4-stars is that the word choices, inflection, and writing style is Rylant's. Of course, this isn't a bad thing by a long shot. It's a great thing, since Rylant's words are golden. It does, however, make the reader aware that it isn't a book in the series of of LHOTP. Fans of the series and of Laura should read it. It's a joy to hear the story imagined in the hidden part of the life of Laura.

[Lorraine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is it me, or is the writing style trying very hard to capture Laura's characteristically slightly stilted prose... and failing spectacularly? In the Little House books, there's a certain charm to the way Laura writes - it's stiff and formal and childlike in some ways, but it has a nice flow to it nonetheless. This is just... stiff and formal and childlike. But maybe I'm being too harsh. After all, I appreciate that someone took the time to write a book to fill the gap between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake (which was an overly long gap in which a lottttt of stuff happened, though this book actually doesn't cover as much of the space of time as I would have liked). And while it's not Laura, the writing is serviceable enough - at least it doesn't sound heinously different. There's a moment where people in the town are putting out a fire that I really liked, and that seemed very much in the spirit of the other books (though... I won't give too much away, but in that scene, the characters find something very amusing that definitely would not have been amusing if the fire had caused more damage).

Overall, I'd say this is a good one to read if you're really into anything of the time period, if you felt like the gap between Plum Creek and Silver Lake was just too long, or if you're a seriously die-hard fan of the series and want to read everything even vaguely related to it.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story itself is nice, the writing was nice but sometimes 'choppy' as I think she 'hurried' the story along (guess she didn't want to have a very long book since it was made for children) I was pleasantly surprised to read some of the story was 'true to fact' like the preacher's wife asking to adopt Laura because the Ingalls family was struggling so much. "Pa" calling all three girls by nicknames over and over again got kind of old at the beginning; and they said that Freddie had a headstone buried alone...but from the few biographies I've read that includes Freddie he was buried 'in Uncle Peters graveyard" which implies that he wasn't the first and only person buried there? And never had a stone? Anyhow... story I think I will give it a four star when I rate it for others to read.... however, if I compared it to the series in which it is a part of it would only get a meager 2 star. Doesn't flow like the series does, the girls have a different 'air' about them (for lack of better wording) almost like your watching a movie and you get seriously into the storyline and then you put the second movie in only to find they switched the main characters actresses to someone else then producers realized they did a 'goof' and brought the original actresses back. Stand alone the book is a good one...but in the series not so much....

But if you've never read it pick it up and read you won't be disappointed.

[CC. Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can think of no better author than Cynthia Rylant to take on this daunting task: to write the story that is missing from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Series. There is some part of her life that Wilder never wrote about and Rylant tackles it here, fitting this story between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake. Rylant and Wilder have such similar writing styles that it felt as if I were reading Wilder again, visiting a long lost, but reclaimed, old friend.

The story concerns the missing years when the Ingalls family lost their farm and had to move around, finally landing in a town at a hotel as workers. It was a dark time for the family, a time they all hated, which is perhaps by Wilder never chose to write about it. The story also covers the death of Wilder's only brother, Micheal, who died as a baby and is scarcely mentioned elsewhere.

It was a bittersweet read for me. So sweet because it called to mind reading that favorite series as a girl, and yet sad, too, to know this wasn't my familiar friend. Sad, also, to see how the Ingalls family suffered so. Reading this book was really like pulling a favorite old sweater around me, wrapping up and snuggling down for a quick, warm read. It is wonderful, but short, and fully deserving to sit on the bookshelf between the other Little House classics.

[Hapsari Darmastuti · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have never read the book before now, although I have reread the Little House books many times. Laura did not actually publish this part of her life because in this book a lot more serious stuff happens. Because the grasshopper came back again this year, Pa cannot pay off his debt and because of that Pa and Ma has to move to the town of Burr Oak to manage a hotel. From having a big farm to living in one room, it's not a happy time for them. There's also the loss of Laura's only brother that I have never known existed since Laura never talked about him in her books. The writing is similar but not quite the same, but I still enjoyed it nonetheless.

[Editt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I marked it as a four just because this book reminded me how much I love to read about this time era. A lot of hard, sad events happen in Laura's life during this time but her family is so strong. They endure and continue to work hard. No matter what hits them they are always trying to remain self sufficient, pay off their debts, and provide a loving home for their children. I love all the Little House books and I am glad I read this one.

[Libby · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this; it included some events in the life of the Ingalls family that I knew about but which never entered the Little House series. Some parts made me cry!

Rylant does a nice job of capturing Wilder's gentle but enthusiastic descriptions of pioneer life and family life. This is much better than other Little House spin-offs I've read!

[Kristen EJ Lauderdale · Rating 4 out of 5]

That scene where the doctor's wife requested to buy Laura from her family was incredibly heavy. Poor Laura stood there terrified while waiting politely to hear if her Ma would give her up. I was in suspense and I've read the later books and knew it didn't happen.

[Tasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad attempt to fill in the missing year's of Laura's life. A little to simply written but still enjoyable.

[June Jacobs · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't know this book existed until I came face-to-face with it as it sat on a book stand in the children's section of a small branch library in our county. As a child I read--and reread--all of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. A few years ago, I reread them all while performing research for a project I have not yet published.

The book is set between the winter of 1875 and the winter of 1877, which means Laura was eight-years-old when this story begins. Laura Ingalls Wilder did not write about this period in her life when she wrote the other Little House books. This period falls between book 4, 'On the Banks of Plum Creek,' and book 5, 'By the Shores of Silver Lake.'

The author, Cynthia Rylant, shares in the Foreword of this book that Mrs. Wilder ". . . penned only a dozen pages about this part of her life, and those pages were never published." Cynthia Rylant used the few written notes Mrs. Wilder left to write this book when she was requested by the publisher to write about this period in Laura's childhood.

The book was an enjoyable read, and I got some answers to questions I had about the differences in characters in the Little House television show versus the books. At one point a statement is made in this book about Laura's personality that didn't mesh with my interpretation of her character traits in the nine books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This got me to thinking about how readers may interpret characters differently than perhaps the author intended them to be.

This story includes many sad events and misfortunes, some catastrophes caused by nature, and other misfortunes caused by poor decision-making. I feel readers who immerse themselves in this story will experience some tender emotions along with some fun while reading about the Wilder's family lifestyle, travels, and strength when faced with adversity.

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[Katherine Loyacano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Old Town in the Green Groves by Cynthia Rylant is a historical fiction companion novel to The Little House on the Prairie series. This story covers the “lost years” in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life which took place between “the winter of 1875 and the fall of 1877.” Grasshoppers ruin the family’s crops, so they are forced to leave their home from Plum Creek and move to the town of Burr Oak located in Iowa where Pa and Ma work at a hotel.

I enjoyed reading Old Town in the Green Groves and learning more about Laura’s life between her adventures in On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake. I think Cynthia Rylant did a terrific job writing in Laura’s voice and presenting it in a similar format like the books in the original series. This novel captures the Ingalls family experiencing some happy moments as well as some dark ones during this interim. Every time I read one of Laura’s stories, I admire her and her family for all they had to endure. The frequent moving, harsh environmental conditions, and disappointments due to unforeseen circumstances never seemed to stop Pa and Ma from providing for their family and each other. Laura’s family faced everything head on with determination, faith, and grace. It’s a heartwarming and humorous story wrapped around some heartbreak. Charming companion for fans of the Little House series!

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cynthia Rylant has done a fine job of imagining Laura Ingalls' life between her books The Banks of Plum Creek and The Shores of Silver Lake, a 2-year period of time missing from the Little House on the Prairie series. Rylant uses as much primary source material as is available - not much - and wonderfully fills in the rest with her imagination. During this period of time, the Ingalls family endured several moves, another grasshopper invasion, flooding rains, the birth of a baby who only lived for a few months (Charles Frederick), other times of difficult illness, and the birth of another baby who was healthy (Grace). They helped to run a hotel in an older, larger town called Burr Oak, Iowa, before finally moving back west to the claim at Silver Lake.
Cynthia Rylant is an excellent author who is able to put herself into the shoes of an historical figure and recreate not just events, but also character, thoughts, attitudes, and speech patterns of the Ingalls family.

[Pat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wish I had read this before a visit to Burr Oak a few years ago, but I enjoyed Rylant’s telling of the story, and am glad to have had the gap filled in in this way. Today’s writing for children is not quite as fearful of addressing scary or sad or distressing subjects as it was when Laura wrote. I felt Rylant’s effort was a worthy one on all counts.

[Becca Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cynthia Rylant is amazing! She took us very carefully into the missing years of the Little House years and tenderly showed us why Laura Ingalls Wilder couldn’t share these experiences in the Little House series. We laughed and cried as we read this aloud. It is a treasure not to be missed in the beloved series.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Where was Rose when you needed her?