Title: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer
Series: Childhood of Famous
Americans
Author: Beatrice Gormley
Illustrator: Meryl Henderson
Genre: Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689839243
Copyright: 2001
When I was growing up, one of my favorite book series to read were the Little House on the Prairie books, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I would also enjoy watching the television show with the same name starring Melissa Gilbert as Laura.
This book describes the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder starting with the experiences she had growing up with her family: Charles-Pa, Caroline- Ma, and her sisters Mary, Carrie, and Grace. Gormley goes on to write about how Laura became a teacher, and met and fell in love with her future husband Almanzo Wilder. The author also writes about Laura and Almanzo's only child Rose Wilder(Lane) and how Laura was inspired to write the series based on her life experiences. I feel the book is easy to read and there are also illustrations throughout the book as well.
The age range for this book is for ages 8 and up and I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about history and especially those who liked reading the Little House on the Prairie series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I would also recommend the other books in the series, Childhood of Famous Americans.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a really excellent gateway book, a way to get kids who don't want to read non-fiction (or just kids who think they don't want to read non-fiction) into the habit. As a little girl I read all of the Little House books and had I found or been handed this book I would have eagerly devoured it. Which could have easily led to other nonfiction books on the time period or other authors etc. This is exactly the kind of book that a good youth librarian should have up their sleeve to use as a lure for their reluctant readers. (I'm trying to decide if that sounds bad or not. lol)
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