Little House on the Prairie

This one definitely needs some discussion if you’re reading/listening with kids. The language around “Indians” at that time definitely wasn’t very nice to say the least. The book is told from a child’s perspective though and you still get the impression that Pa has a bit more respect for them than other adults.

One of my faves as a kid and still a good story, though.

Really good, highly recommend for young children, a great book

Still a classic and an excellent reader. Loved it. .

Great narrator and entertaining music! We thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to listen to the next book!

Loved it amazing, loved the singing parts! Love Person Who Wrote The Review...

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This book is a wonderful classic! And I loved the reader!

The narrator does a fantastic job with this classic sorry. The children and I are mesmerized every night at bed.

Read aloud to the boys, just as enjoyable as the first volume, looking forward to the rest.

My 9 year old twins like listening to this series. My boy likes the interesting historical parts and my girl like the action from a child’s perspective.

I enjoyed it but it also made me feel a bit uncomfortable with the way it characterised native Americans.

Fun book to listen to. Great insight on how life was back then. I see a lot of reviews basically trying to cancel this book. To me, it was very educational and gave me more sympathy of how Native Americans were treated. Keep this book authentic.

Love this series!! A great road trip book for my two year old, five year old and seven year old

this story is great, and with an awesome twist at the end!

I'll never tire of this story so beautifully written. I am right there on the prairie with Laura and her family. I can hear the meadowlarks and the fiddle singing.

I don’t know what’s so amazing just listen to it and you’ll find out

Classic. Kept picturing all of the actors from the 70’s as it went on. Childhood unlocked!

Beautiful Book. I really like Pa’s fiddle. I love Laura’s character!

Best audiobook reader I've ever heard. She makes it so fun and lively!

Transformation happened daily as I listened to this excellent audio production. Thank you for passing on all these values of the perspective of the 1880s settlement of the USA in this unabridged 1935 first copyright edition. Easy peace filled adventure listening ?

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder; (4 1/2*)My G'ma gave one of the 'Little House' books to me when I was a youngster way back in the 1950s. I don't even remember which one it was but today at 70 I am still reading them. They enrapture me and I love how Ingalls minutely describes the manner in which they built the items they needed to accomplish their tasks.Stories such as these remind you of what family ties, loyalty, respect and responsibility mean.

very interesting, sad as well, but not very sad. A very entertaining story of miss wilder's life

Such a happy book.
Reminds one of what life could be.
A beautiful life we can all have!

The area around the Ingalls' little house in the big woods is getting crowded, and Pa decides to hop in the wagon and head off to "Indian country" in Kansas. The family find a nice place to settle and spend months building a home there. But just as things are beginning to settle down to a normal life, they begin to have troubles with the natives in the area, who are angry about all the settlers moving into their territory. This plot was a lot less passive than the story from Little House in the Big Woods, and as a result I enjoyed it a good deal more. This is my first time reading the series and it's exciting to experience the story that so many people rave about. Maybe I'll even check out the TV series, though I hear it's nothing like the books. One thing I had trouble with in this story was the handling of the Native Americans and their culture. Obviously, this book was written in a time when there was a lot of tension between Natives and white settlers, and the language and attitude expressed in Little House was acceptable. However, this may be one of those books that I would discuss with a young child if they were reading it. I don't believe in telling a child not to read a book, but I do believe in discussing certain points of books with children if it's possible for them to misunderstand the context. This is definitely one of those books. In the long run, though, I'm really enjoying this series and am eager to move on to the next book.

It sounded so real like I was in the book!!

The little house books are one of my favorite series, and now my boys are enjoying them just as much! Especially for my autistic son these have helped him to understand people's feelings and how people live differently from us and that is a good thing. I love these books!

I love this, but I'm kind of sad that they had to move from their prairie house But I'm sure the next book in the series is going to be awesome!!!!!!!

I really enjoyed this book! Laura had a way that she wrote that is easy for children to understand and see in their minds just what she was trying to describe. Another beautifully written story. I would recommend this book and the rest of the series.

This is a classic of children's literature that has an unusual air of distinction about it in the present day and age. It is simultaneously incredibly simple to read in terms of its language use, and yet very complex in terms of the social situation it presents. This book continues the story of the Ingalls family as they move from Wisconsin to Indian Territory and start a new life there. In its depiction of pioneer life, it provides an unparalleled glimpse for young readers into a time in American history when things were very different. In terms of the family and their everyday tasks, the story is quaint, charming, and fun to read, with a dash of humour and love. In terms of the status of Native Americans in the area at the time, however, the story is forthright and hard to fully grasp from a modern point of view. The overall picture of Native Americans in the story is a relatively balanced one, with the family's fear of the local tribes pitted against a couple of instances in which Pa comes to believe that some of the natives are all right. However, the common saying that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" is uttered by other characters in the story, and it is definitely apparent that feelings during this period were tense. It would be impossible to say for sure whether Wilder cleaned up her portrayal of her family, as they appear to take a kinder view of Native Americans than others in the story, but she does do modern readers a favour by offering an honest look into the difficulties of Anglo-Native relations at the time. The book deals openly with a very sensitive issue, which makes it an important contribution to youth literature. It might simply be wise, though, to guide young readers through their understanding of what is conveyed in this work and how it is appreciated from a modern perpspective, rather than letting children read this on their own and formulate their own ideas about the subject.

This book began to develop a little beyond just the catalog of everyday activities that Little House in the Big Woods basically was.

It touches on issues of racism and politics as it affects individuals. I enjoyed seeing how Ma and Pa handled their difference of opinion about their Native American neighbors. Each held to his or her own convictions on the matter, but each was respectful of the other person's view. Pa turned out to be right (thank goodness...I don't know how I would have explained it to my daughter had it turned out the other way), but he didn't lord it over Ma.

Wilder's descriptions grew more effective and more emotionally real in this book. She does a lot to convey emotion with a minimum of words. There was more than one scene along the trail in front of the house in which the tension was just so apparent. Wilder never had to come right out and explain that the situation between the natives and the white settlers was a tenuous one, she just let those scenes speak for themselves.