IN A SPECIAL NEW SERIES OF BOOK REVIEWS BY CURRENT FURL MEMBERS, WE PRESENT OUR THIRD EDITION. THE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE IS WRITTEN BY COMMITTEE MEMBER SUSAN BOZAK.
The American Classic Little House on the Prairie is a series of 8 novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her writing transports the reader back to 1867 where the Ingalls family traveled 2,000 miles across rugged terrain through Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Missouri in a covered wagon.
Readers will be amazed and truly appreciate how these early pioneers survived harsh winters, scorching heat, invading grasshoppers that destroyed crops, malaria (fever n ague); scarlet fever which caused Mary to go blind, and how the Ingalls made Mary’s dream come true by sending her to the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton Iowa.
Some readers may fondly recall the television show adaptation from the 1970s.
A series all readers can enjoy! Ranked 22 out of 100 of the Best Young Adult Books of all times, The Little House books can be found at the Urbana Regional Library in the Children’s Section and Junior Fiction.