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I'm sorry. I just was bored. And [b:Farmer Boy|77764|Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)|Laura Ingalls Wilder|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388323590l/77764._SX50_.jpg|1366740] has always been my favorite Little House book. And the art, imo, just has a loose acquaintance w/ Garth Brooks, and definitely suffers in comparison. At least they had the obligatory catalog of foods the boy enjoyed... the original almost gives me a tummy-ache to read!
I wonder, would I like this more if I were reading it as a complete stand-alone? I think, maybe, just a little bit. Really not that great a book imo.
I wonder, would I like this more if I were reading it as a complete stand-alone? I think, maybe, just a little bit. Really not that great a book imo.
It's an exciting day for Almanzo as the Wilder family visits the county fair in this second My First Little House Book adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic Farmer Boy. There are contests, races, and good things to eat, and Almanzo can't wait to see what the judges think of his special pumpkin.
Summary: A little boy living on a farm with his mother, father, brother and two sisters has grown his own pumpkin. The little boy has entered it in the county fair. The family all go to the fair together his sisters have entered things that they made their self and they win ribbons for their entries. The young boy wins a ribbon for his pumpkin. He has the biggest pumpkin of all the pumpkins.
Personal Reaction: Nice story about a family doing things together and really enjoying each other. These books make me wish my family and life was a lot more like it is in the story.
Classroom Extensions:
1.) Read this the first part of October and find a pumpkin patch to visit as a class field trip.
2.) Clean the pumpkin as a class and take the seeds show more out and toast them for a little treat in class. show less
Personal Reaction: Nice story about a family doing things together and really enjoying each other. These books make me wish my family and life was a lot more like it is in the story.
Classroom Extensions:
1.) Read this the first part of October and find a pumpkin patch to visit as a class field trip.
2.) Clean the pumpkin as a class and take the seeds show more out and toast them for a little treat in class. show less
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Wilder was born near Pepin, Wisconsin; attended school in DeSmet, South Dakota; and became a teacher before she was 16, teaching for seven years in Dakota Territory schools. She and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, farmed near DeSmet for about nine years and then moved to Mansfield, Missouri, where they lived out the rest of their days. Wilder did not show more write her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, about her early years in Wisconsin, until late in life, on the urging of her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. It was first published in 1932. She followed this with Farmer Boy (1933), a book about her husband's childhood in New York State. She then completed a series of books about her life as she and her family moved westward along the frontier. Little House on the Prairie (1935) records the family's move to Kansas. On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937) describes the family's move to Minnesota. By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939) records the family's move to South Dakota, as do the final three books in the series: The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie (1941), and These Happy Golden Years (1943), which ends with her marriage to Almanzo Wilder. Three of Wilder's books were published posthumously: On the Way Home, a diary of her trip to Mansfield; The First Four Years, an unfinished book about her first four years of marriage; and West from Home, letters she wrote on a visit to her daughter in San Francisco, none of them up to the quality of her earlier books. At her best, Wilder employs a clear, simple style, a wealth of fascinating detail, and a straightforward narrative style. Her tales of a strong, traditional frontier family that endures the hardships of the late eighteenth century are seen through the eyes of a child, which endears them to young readers. Her work is possibly the best example of historical realistic fiction for children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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