On the Banks of Plum Creek: Little House, Book 4

I love re reading these books from childhood. They are fabulous. Clean, simple, wholesome stories. God, the Bible and faith throughout. Unashamed faith. Thank you to publishers for keeping them around. I will continue to read them all. Life was hard then. But people appreciated the simple things. Maybe we should learn from them.

Wonderful to read to grandchildren!

ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK -- Who could forget the plague of grasshoppers, or spoiled Nellie's encounter with the crab, or Pa's sojourn in the blizzard, among other adventures?We -- my three homeschooled grandchildren and I -- are going through the Laura Ingalls Wilder series of books for the second time. We read them aloud during story time, and love every minute. These are books written about an American pioneer family in the 1800s with a strong moral compass. In an unsentimental style, the author writes simply of the day-to-day life she experienced firsthand growing up. As the title of this review suggests, a central theme, not only of this book, but the entire series, is that "Pa loves Ma, and Ma loves Pa, and all's right with the world," including in the face of all kinds of adversity and opportunity alike.I enrich this time for my grandchildren by stopping occasionally to explain and discuss what we are reading about, be it an unusual word usage, a custom no longer practiced, how to do something by hand, historical facts... We have even stopped to do some research and measure out the height of a bear. Our family tradition is that the eldest grandchild (now 11) reads the last page of these books. Otherwise, I usually do the reading. We also try to get started right away on the next book in the series, the same day as we finish the one before, so as not to lose our momentum.After going through the series the first time, we discovered (almost by accident at the local library) several other series of books, written by other authors, about Laura's great-grandmother Martha in Scotland, her grandmother Charlotte in Boston, and her mother Caroline in Wisconsin, so we decided to start over with the first of those books and carry on through. There is also a series about Laura's daughter Rose which we have not gotten to yet.Reading through the other series in order has been time well invested. Like Laura, we have strong family roots in Scotland. We have four generations of our family living within close proximity, so my grandchildren know my father, their beloved great-grandfather, quite well, and this series helps them gain a feel of family and historical continuity, generation to generation. (Check for related book series under: Martha Years, Charlotte Years, Caroline Years, Rose Years).I am investing in and building our own set of all these books in hardcover, having told my grandchildren that I plan to be around to read them to *their* grandchildren!

The Laura Ingalls Wilder books are very touching!

The Little House series are great read aloud books.Our daughter is five and this series is perfectly age appropriate, even though an older child would enjoy them equally as well. For younger ones (three or so), there is a great picture book series called "My first little house books," or something like that. One of these is a story based of a chapter in this book and is called "Christmas in the Big Woods."These CD's are great for long trips in the car. The narrator's voice is wonderful. The adults will find themselves enjoying listening themselves."One the Banks of Plum Creek" is the best of the series. It is the one where Mary and Laura go to school and where the character of Nellie Olson is introduced. Her brand of spoiled rotten meanness is nothing short of tantalizing to a five year old. Also, there are the wonderful Christmas chapters.Just excellent, all around. I highly recommend the books to read alound and the CD's.

I love the Little House books, they're wonderful. I got three of the books in hardcover as a Christmas gift to myself, and thought, based on the customer photos, that the illustrations were in color. They arrived today, and I was really irritated to see that they're not. The edition I ordered was "Hardcover – Illustrated, October 14, 1953." The books are still great, but just an FYI that you can't go by product images when it comes to books, because the reviews seem to be for all editions of a book so you can't be sure that the photos are of the edition you're buying.

On the Banks of Plum Creek is one of the strongest entries in the Little House series. It's no wonder why it won a Newberry Award. You don't need to read the books as a series. You can just pick up any volume and start reading. Laura is so relatable and her simple adventures told so wonderfully. In all the books there is an element of danger. When you are living miles away from your nearest neighbor with no doctors, police or firefighters, and environmental disasters a flicker away, life on the prairie can be dangerous. These books are just as enjoyable for adults as for children. The stories are not like the TV show.

Was good

As clássicas ilustrações de Garth Williams ficaram ainda mais lindas por serem coloridas; e a qualidade acima da média do papel foi uma agradável surpresa.

I very much enjoyed listening to it

Ce livre est très bien!!!Il ne fait pas du tout peur !!!!Laura a 8 ans , sa grande soeur Marie a 9 ans et sa petite soeur Carrie 1,2 ou3 ans!!!si vous lisez bien vous pouvez le lire à n' importe quel age !!!!Sophie 11 ans

読み始めたら、なかなかやめられなくなってしまいました。次々と起こる苦難に、ハラハラさせられます。たくましい家族。