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Summary: A great book!
Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder portrays herself and her family in this book. The story revolves round Laura who in her own ways is unique. It is about her experience as a little girl from a family not very well off. Her father sold wheat for a living and was constantly looking for new land. The author, I think, wanted to let people know about pioneer times.The language used in the book is simple but expresses many thoughts and the author has portrayed the characters and their thoughts very well. She also described her surroundings well. An example would be 'Plum trees were low trees. They grew close together, with many little scraggly branches all strung with thin-skinned, juicy plums. ...air was sweet and sleepy, and wings hummed.' Laura's excitement and exuberance were captured vividly in her writings. She also portrayed very well how Laura got pleasure in the simple ways of life in the midst of poverty. An example would be when she was playing on the straw stack with her sister. They jumped on the straw stack and slid and rolled down it and they had lots of fun. 'On The Banks Of Plum Creek' is an example how simplicity of plot, innocence of children even amongst poverty and the awesome powers of nature can be put together into a novel that is hard to leave once one starts to read it. In other words the book is gripping. I would recommend this book to all my friends, as I truly loved this book.
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Summary: What a delightful book !
Review: Laura was a nine year old girl who had dark brown hair and eyes. She lived in the prairie of Minnesota with Ma, Pa, Mary, Carrie and her pet bulldog,Jack. Laura's family worked very hard in their everyday life. Pa would tend the garden,Ma would do the house work,and Mary and Laura would help after they came from school. Sometimes storms struck the prairie and it was devastating. The author,Laura Ingalls Wilder, wanted to let people know about pioneer times. On the Banks of Plum Creek is a very well written book,it made me feel as if I was part of the story.
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Summary: It was exciting and hard to put down.
Review: My favorite part is when Pette (the horse) makes a hole in the roof, because Laura and Pa were looking at cattle Pette got scared and ran over the roof. Laura and her family get a house that is under ground. The only place you can get money was to grow crops, but when grasshoppers eat them you don't have money. Will the Wilder family make it find out when you read On The Banks Of Plum Creek.
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Summary: On the Banks Of Plum Creek
Review: No one can really explain the hardships and wonders of movingwest in the 1800s, or what it was like.After reading all the LittleHouse books I find this one the best one of the series. The books takes on from the previous book(Little House On The Parrie), as the Ingall's family moves out to Minnisota, where they buy land and a place called home. There home is very near Plum Creek and three miles to town. As they lived together, they face fears, hope, blizzards and locus,and learn that disasters won't destroy them. This story grabed me and made me go into the book and made me expierenced the story with them.
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Summary: A Great Success!
Review: On the Banks of Plum Creek begins to leave the "little child" stage of the Laura Years. The writing style changes, and Laura is beginning to grow up! I love every page, from town party lemonade to the old crab that lives in the creek. Overall, this book is very enjoyable, and relatable too. Please, if you know what's good for you, you'll read On the Banks of Plum Creek.
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Summary: On the Banks of Plum Creek
Review: On the Banks of Plum Creek is a really good book. Laura is seven .... Her big sister Mary is eight. The little sister Carrie is two. They moved to the banks of Plum Creek and built a house. There was a town three miles away so they got to go to school. They had lots of fun in the water. You should read this book.
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Summary: On the Banks of Plum Creek
Review: On the Banks of Plum Creek is a really good book. Laura is seven like me. Her big sister Mary is eight. The little sister Carrie is two. They moved to the banks of Plum Creek and built a house. There was a town three miles away so they got to go to school. They had lots of fun in the water. You should read this book.
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Summary: I liked this book
Review: One of my favorite parts was when Nellie and Willie were eating candy out of the barrel and didn't offer Mary and Laura even one piece. I also liked when Nellie had a birthday party. She only let the kids play with toys she didn't like that much. Then Nellie showed her a really good doll, and Laura put her hand out and tried to touch it. Nellie snatched the doll away and said something mean. Laura sat by herself then. Mrs. Oleson gave her some picture books to look at. I also liked when they went to school, every day they would play ring-a-round-the-rosy, but one day all the kids decided let's play another game, everyone wanted to play except Nellie. They were fighting and Laura almost hit her. This book was a lot of fun because Nellie was so mean and Laura got back at her when she made her run where the leeches were.
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Summary: JINC'S CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB
Review: Remember that show "Little House on the Prairie"? Well, this is the book that it's all about. Here is the family: Pa, Ma, Mary 8, Laura 7, and Carrie 2. Baby Grace isn't born yet in this book. All their childhood adventures happen here: First day of school, mean Nellie Oleson, party with their friends, and their first real house with a doorknob! Through anything that ever happens, they know they have each other. That's why even though some things go terribly wrong, it is an adventure to them. Even so, by the end of this book, I wished they had never moved from their "Little House in the Big Woods". By the way, this is a true story. It covers approximately 2 years.
The next book in the series, By the Shores of Silver Lake, takes place about 4 years later when Laura is about 13. This large gap makes watching the show enjoyable because there is a long time period not covered in the books and these are things that could have happened during that unrecorded time. It is fun to read real history and this book is one of the best. Find out just what people do when home is a hole in a hill. What's it like to go to school in your bare feet when most people don't have shoes? What do you do when a fireball rolls into your house? What do you do for fun when TV's haven't been invented, the family owns one book, and oh yeah, there are no toys? Read this book and find out!
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Summary: Just Like the TV Show Little House on the Prairie
Review: Remember that show "Little House on the Prairie"? Well, this is the book that it's all about. Here is the family: Pa, Ma, Mary 8, Laura 7, and Carrie 2. Baby Grace isn't born yet in this book. All their childhood adventures happen here: First day of school, mean Nellie Oleson, party with their friends, and their first real house with a doorknob! Through anything that ever happens, they know they have each other. That's why even though some things go terribly wrong, it is an adventure to them. Even so, by the end of this book, I wished they had never moved from their "Little House in the Big Woods". By the way, this is a true story. It covers approximately 2 years.
The next book in the series, By the Shores of Silver Lake, takes place about 4 years later when Laura is about 13. This large gap makes watching the show enjoyable because there is a long time period not covered in the books and these are things that could have happened during that unrecorded time. It is fun to read real history and this book is one of the best. Find out just what people do when home is a hole in a hill. What's it like to go to school in your bare feet when most people don't have shoes? What do you do when a fireball rolls into your house? What do you do for fun when TV's haven't been invented, the family owns one book, and oh yeah, there are no toys? Read this book and find out!
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