Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote nine Little House books about her childhood growing upon the western frontier. But there were two years she didn't write about, two missing years that take place between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake.Now, Newbery Award-winning author...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote nine Little House books about her childhood growing upon the western frontier. But there were two years she didn't write about, two missing years that take place between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake.Now, Newbery Award-winning author Cynthia Rylant has imagined what those lost Little House years were like, based on Laura's unpublished memoirs. The result is the first Little House novel about Laura as a young girl in almost 60 years, and a wonderful addition to the classic series.When the grasshopper plague returns to Plum Creek, Pa knows all the crops will be destroyed again. He decides to take the family east to Burr Oak, Iowa, where he has found work running a hotel. But Laura tongs to return to the tall-grass prairie and the unsettled west, to a place where Pa can play his fiddle in the open air and where she can feel free again.Old Town in the Green Groves continues the story about Laura Ingalls -- a story whose wonder and adventure have delighted millions of readers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780064409902 (0064409902)
Publish date: June 1st 2004
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Rylant takes on the missing two years from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series and I think succeeds very well. Covers the time between On The Banks Of Plum Creek and By The Shores of Silver Lake. The voice rings true, the main events are factual though very sad, and the illustr...