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Summary: This is a wonderful series!!!
Review: I was introduced to the "Little House" series by my grandma when I was only 3 or 4. The boxed set I received for Christmas that year has long since been retired. I am now introducing my own daughters to these wonderful books. These books give great insight into our country's history and the daily lives of our ancestors. Laura does a beautiful job of showing how they lived and sweeping you into her world. With each journey westward, each hardship and each joy - you feel like you are there.
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Summary: a must-read book
Review: i could still remember the very first day i read these books when i was about 10 years old. from the very moment, i fell in love with the fascinating stories. the courage, the morales, the wisdoms, and even their conversations all cast a spell on me at 10. now i am almost 30, and i am thinking about this series of books. what i read was chinese version, and i am very surprised that so many english-speaing readers love them also!!!
i love this series of books. it is a series that every generation will fall in love with. i strongly recommend that every parent and parent to be should read this series with the next generation so that they could understand some good and unchangeable values of family and the world.
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Summary: Unforgettable Reading Experience
Review: I received my Little House box set MANY, MANY years ago for Christmas, and it sat on my shelf, a treasure waiting to be fully discovered, for the better part of 2 decades. As an English major, I've spent many hours with Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Edith Wharton, and scores of other wonderful writers. Then one day, my best friend told me that she was reading "Little House in the Big Woods" to her 1st grade class, and that, to a child, boys and girls alike were mezmerized during story time - she'd never seen them pay such good attention. That was all it took. One Sunday morning, I walked up to the attic, and brought down my set. Since then, I've read straight through them, often into the wee hours of the morning. The writing is outstanding (it actually becomes more grown up right along with the characters), and of course the love story is beautiful, but this series has much more to offer its readers - young and old. For one, you get a much deeper sense of how generations before us struggled, toiled really, to make this country what it is today. And the sense of family is amazing, particularly as Laura becomes old enough to live away from home and realize just how wonderful her family is. Every child should read them. Better yet, every family should read them aloud, together. I certainly plan to read them aloud to my kids.
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Summary: Before there was Harry Potter ...
Review: If memory serves me correctly, I discovered Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books around the age of seven. I do remember being the envy of my third-grade classmates when I received the entire boxed set AND "On The Way Home" for Christmas. Of course, newer generations only know Laura from the TV series, which, as an earlier reviewer remarked, was the epitome of schmalzy, rose-glassed views of pioneer life, but interestingly enough included some real incidents Laura never put in the books (the death of the baby brother and living in the hotel). The books, however, still stand the test of time. True, some of the harsher elements of frontier life are glossed over to an extent--these are books aimed at kids, after all--but overall the books are an fascinating study of life on the prairie in the post-Civil War years. Much like Harry Potter, the Little House books can be read and enjoyed by adults. My only quibble with the books is that I've always felt that there should have been another book between "On The Banks of Plum Creek" and "On The Shores of Silver Lake," since there's a jump of about five years between the two. According to some of Laura's biographers, however, Laura's family had some rough experiences during that time, so that might explain the lack. Still, there's a reason these books are classics--the descriptions are top-notch, they're moralistic without smacking you over the head, and they're just plain fun to read. I still have the boxed set (not the same one I got for Christmas, alas), and on snowy days in my own little house I find myself curled up in front of the fire with "Farmer Boy" or "These Happy Golden Years." Enjoy!
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Summary: Every girl should read them!
Review: I'm 42 years old and I love them. When my little girl comes along, I can't wait to share them with her. Thank God He created Laura Ingals Wilder who inspired her to write these classics.
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Summary: Little House on the Prarie - Boxed Set
Review: When I first bought thses books I was skeptical. When I have my daughter I can't wait to share these stories with her. I am forty two years old and I love these books myself. I am on the fifth book, and I constantly find them difficult to put down! These books are wonderful for children but at the same time are wholesome for everyone. I highly recommend these books. They are worth their weight, believe me. All I can say is that these wonderful stories have taken me back in time and to a place more simple and wonderful. I thank God in heaven for Laura Ingalls Wilder and the inspiration she received from God to write these books. Get them and I guarantee you you will be thrilled to the heart.
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Summary: your never to old to read these books
Review: Before I was born my mother bought the first edition of the boxed sets for her children I.e. my sister and I. I am now 21 and I still to this day read them. Needless to say that the books are now in very poor condition. I have sense bought a newer boxed set and the old one now has a place of honnor on my book case. I find it very facinating that a little pioneer girl grew up to be the worlds most loved childrens author. I can't get enough of the stories pa told to Laura and Mary in the big woods or of reading about the long winter and of the heroic effort Almanzo and Cap Garland went for the weat to feed a town almost starved. I don't think I will ever get enough of the little house collection. My mother always told me that your never to old to read them and shes right.
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Summary: Great for Young and Old
Review: I first started reading the Little House books when I was 8 years old. I received a full set for my 10th birthday. I read them and reread them over and over. I was totally enthralled with the life of Laura. Now I am in college, and whenever I find myself overstressed, I pull out the Little House books and read them. Nothing to me is more calming and soothing than my copies, that have now become slightly tattered from so many loving readings. Even as an adult, these books still speak volumes to me. The writing is appropriate for children, while they are still writen to a level that adults enjoy reading. These books are definetly a gem in American history and American literature!
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Summary: True Classics!
Review: One of the biggest fallacies about the Little House books is that they are "girls' books." It was that perception of the books, as well as the sappy, smaltzy "Little House on the Prairie" TV show, that kept me from reading these books until I was in my early teens. One day just out of sheer boredom, I read my sister's worn copy of "Little House in the Big Woods." What a great book! A story of a family's survival in the wilderness with tales of bears, panthers, wolves, hunting, and all sorts of neat information on how pioneer people lived. "Little House in the Big Woods" erased my conception of the Little House books as "girlie stuff" and I promptly read the rest of the series. Yes, some elements will appeal more to girls especially Mrs. Wilder's very detailed descriptions of women's clothing. (I generally just read what color the dress was and then skip over the rest of the description.) However, her stories about Indians, wild animals, blizzards, grasshopper storms, bandits, bullies threatening to beat up teachers, unruly students, unhinged farmwives, bossy older sisters, and a whole host of other great stuff will make these books fascinating to anyone interested in pioneer life regardless of gender. Despite my age I still consider these among my favorite books. They are truly heartwarming classics with the magnificent illustrations of Garth Williams. Laura, the main character, will appeal to almost anyone- honest, principled, courageous, industrious, but with very human elements- including envy of her older sister and holding grudges, especially against snooty Nellie Oleson and her teacher (and future sister-in-law) Eliza Jane Wilder. The books are also a tribute to her father, Charles Ingalls, who emerges as a truly great man and father. A hard-working man upon whom fortune did not always smile, but always was able to remain unbowed regardless of misfortune. He was also a strict disciplinarian, who did not believe in sparing the rod, but also a truly loving father, who would do anything for his girls. Charles Ingalls, as seen through the eyes of his daughter, is a man worthy of any reader's respect. For those who see images of Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert when they hear the words, "Little House," please give the books a chance. They are really nothing like the TV series. Although Laura Ingalls Wilder infused her books with a great deal of sentimentality- they never descend into the maudlin syrup that was the hallmark of the TV series. One example of how different they truly are would be how they represented how Mary, Laura's older sister, lost her eyesight. In "On the Shores of Silver Lake" Laura describes how scarlet fever robbed her sister of her sight, but also proudly describes how that tragedy never brought Mary to tears. Mary always remained "patient and brave." In contrast, the TV show has Mary wailing, moaning, and carrying on until her family ships her off to a school for the blind. (In the books, Mary does eventually go to a college for the blind, but only after years of being an important and valuable member of the family despite her disability.) Once again, the Little House series is a perfect example of the books being vastly superior to any TV or film conversion.
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Summary: Very good package...
Review: This package contains all 9 books of the series. The package itself looks very nice. A well worth buy for the dedicated fans of the series.
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