Little House on the Prairie [Unknown Binding]

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author), Garth Willimas (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 334 pages
• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st edition (January 1, 1971)
• ASIN: B000FCD7GW
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (132 customer reviews)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as previous version, May 20, 2007

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S.C.C. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little House on the Prairie (Paperback)

I teach 5th grade and I purchased these books to complete my class set of these books. This new version is missing all of the wonderful sketches that made Laura's books famous. Why? The font is also smaller and the page numbers are different, making it difficult for the kids with this version to follow along. I'm most upset though at the lack of the illustrations that children have come to love since Laura wrote these books. Disappointing. Get the older version (without the photograph on the cover) if you can get it.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life on the Frontier, April 7, 2004

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Mark Baker (Santa Clarita, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little House on the Prairie (Little House, No 2) (Paperback)

Pa Ingalls is tired of how crowded the big woods are getting. So he decides to sell the house and move west with his family. Just before the ice breaks, the family loads up their wagon and heads out. They cross the Mississippi River and then head south, settling two days away from Independence, Missouri. Now they have to build a new house and survive the wilderness. Meanwhile, Laura is anxious to see a papoose. And with all the Indians in the area, she may get her chance.

This is a charming book. It's almost a collection of short stories with many chapters being a self-contained event. Still, through these pages, we get a good picture of life on the American frontier 130 years ago. The book gives plenty of detail about their everyday life without getting bogged down. And it is interesting. Frankly, some of the chapters are so harrowing I felt my pulse quicken. Often I found myself shaking my head in awe at what the Ingalls dealt with on a daily basis. This is a good way to make anyone appreciate just what we have today.

These books are still popular 70 years after they were first written for good reason. They are an entertaining and enlightening look at a bygone era.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the finest books I've ever read., May 24, 2001

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ty7777 "I don't give out m'name" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little House on the Prairie (Little House, No 2) (Paperback)

In my opinion: This may be a children's book, but it's just as good if not better for adults. The writing is simple but not insulting. The story itself is captivating. The occurences between the settlers and the American Indians were really amazing. All through the eyes of a little girl.

Laura Wilder had an amazing gift to tell stories and to make an accurate picture of the time she grew up in and of what she thought and felt as a girl. This is not like the show in many respects though. If you only want to read about the exact characters and stories from the show, this may surprise you. Mr. Edwards is not in here much and you won't see characters like Albert or Mr. Oleson in this book. As they live on the prairie, there is no school or store, only a few neighbors a few miles away. Also Indians which only actually show up now and then.

Again it is a story about hard work and family sticking together. Superior to the first book in that you already know alot of the mundane [though very interesting]details of their daily life, and the characters. Now it is full of story. The interactions with wild life alone are astounding as taken for fact. They are not just the amusing tid bits from the first book, but quite dangerous and spellbinding ones.

Fantastic book for anybody. The whole series is great.