This book is about a boy and it follows his life for 3 years but only when he is 8, 9 and 10. It describes his life, about living on a farm and by the end of the story he is turning into a real farmer boy.

Opinion and recommendation:
This book is part of the “Little house on the prairie” series and I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn more about the way people lived in the 1700s. If you like this book, try reading the series. I have been and they are very good and they are all true stories.

Tayla Mitchell.

Growing up on a farm can be hard. It is hard work, and everyone in the family helps. Neighbors work together to plant and harvest. Money is scarce,and people help each other. But life during these times can also be fun. ( )

I came back to this old childhood favorite because I am spending this summer working on a small vegetable farm. These books are every bit as wonderful as they were when I first read them as a child, although I notice different things now.

This is certainly an idealized version of 19th-century American farming - the Wilder family farm is wonderfully prosperous and the main hardship of the story is that Almanzo's father does not think he is old enough to help train the horses. I suppose the fact that adults always idealize their own childhood, combined with the fact that this childhood was something Laura Ingalls Wilder heard about secondhand from her husband rather than experienced firsthand, leads to it being even more sugar-coated than the other books. But it's still incredibly charming, and there is something that appeals to me about the view of life and morality presented here - the incredible self-sufficiency of the farm is incredible to read about, and makes me secretly wish I had as many useful skills as any given character in the novel.

The book also rivals the Redwall series with endless descriptions of mouth-watering meals. I wish I could eat like that as often as these characters do! ( )

Read these as a child and loved them all. I had the 9 boxed set volume.

The third story in the series is an interesting departure. Instead of telling the next chapter of Laura's life, it tells a bit of Almanzo's. The Wilder family is different than the Ingalls family somewhat. The family at this point of the story is still in New York State and that provides a different picture of life than that of life on the prairie frontier. It gives us a little idea of who this Almanzo Wilder is, too, before he reappears later in the story. Of all the stories, I enjoyed this one, but it was my least favorite because of its departure from the story of Laura's family. It feels like an interjection rather than being a part of a chronological telling of the story. All the same, the characters in it are interesting and I felt like I was actually there thanks to the descriptions within. It's a good story that just doesn't seem like a true part of the book series. ( )