A lot happens: Laura and Mary go to school for the first time we meet Laura’s nemesis, Nellie Oleson we learn how utterly repulsive millions, literally, of grasshoppers can be and we begin to understand that Pa has a knack for getting the Ingalls family into precarious situations.īy the time I read FARMER BOY, the story of Laura’s future husband’s childhood, the difference between Almanzo’s dad and Pa convinced me that, although charismatic and devoted, Pa didn’t know what the hell he was doing. I doubt that I’m the only one who wanted to live in a dugout and eat vanity cakes (“because they are all puffed up, like vanity, with nothing solid inside”) after reading this book. My introduction to Wilder’s world was the fourth book in the series, ON THE BANKS OF PLUM, CREEK and it remains my favorite. To me, Wilder will always be the little girl who ran barefoot through fragrant prairie grasses with her sunbonnet dangling down her back. ), long-legged (“Snipes!”), and sometimes naughty (and excellent at revenge). But in my mind, there is no Laura Ingalls Wilder the grown-up writer, there is only Laura Ingalls: spritely (twinkly-eyed, like Pa), braided (blue bows only, please, except that once . . . Laura Ingalls Wilder would have turned 150 this year.
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