Have you read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books lately? I read them as a child in Portuguese, and Husband had never read them. Our family enjoyed the last three volumes together in the car during our trip to Texas and back for Thanksgiving.It is indeed a wonderful experience to enjoy them anew, now that we live in South Dakota. Sometimes I wonder if South Dakotans realize how well loved her books are around the whole world!
Some highlights from the listening experience:
- the whole family is captivated by her reading. While the kids love the stories, the adults enjoy the high quality of the writing and the historical richness
- the family love and generosity
- the appropriate courtship between Laura and Almanzo
- the descriptions of weather, vegetation, and how settlers changed the landscape
- the recipes! Laura had become a great cook herself and began writing as a food columnist. The books are filled with delicious foods!
- most of all, the books portray how wonderful a simple, poor life can be. One is left wishing we could live like that again!
2 comments:
Oh, Ana, we love these books! Just last year, I read the whole series aloud to my kids; that experience is one of my most treasured homeschool memories. There's a richness to the books that's hard to describe. Laura was a wonderful story-teller.
Indeed, I found that re-reading them as an adult, and enjoying them with my husband and children, has been such a pleasant and enjoyable activity!
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