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"On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the third book in the classic "Little House" series telling the story of the Ingalls family's extraordinary life. Laura and her family have finally found a place to settle and their new home on the banks of Plum Creek is full of excitement. Laura loves playing in the water hole, picking plums and milking the cows but when she's told she has to go to school life is all of a sudden a lot less carefree...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Her family moved around, travelling from Missouri to Kansas, Minnesota and back to Wisconsin. Laura's formal education was irregular due to her family often living in isolated areas. Eventually the family settled in De Smet, Dakota Territory and Laura worked regularly as a seamstress and teacher. She stopped working when she married Almanzo Wilder in 1885. Her daughter was the novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane. Little House in the Big Woods was first published in 1932 and Little House on the Prairie in 1935, and five more books in the Little House series followed. Laura also wrote Farmer Boy about her husband's childhood, and three more books were published posthumously. Laura was celebrated during her lifetime and her books considered great literature. She was five times the recipient of the Newbery Honor Award for her distinguished contribution to American literature for children: On the Banks of Plum Creek (1938), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1940), The Long Winter (1941), Little Town on the Prairie (1942), These Happy Golden Years (1944).
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THE DIM WAGON track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses. Read the first page
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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In this book, Laura and her family are travelling to live in Minnesota. To buy a lovely dig out and crops, Pa sells the horses to the landowner and he later on buys some new ones. Later in the story, Pa builds a great wooden house for the family to live in. During this story, the two girls start school again and there they meet horrible, mean and haughty Nellie Oleson who laughs at the "country girls" though they have to nice friends. The family are devastated when their crops are eaten and ruined by grass hoppers, and lots of other problems. But anything can be sorted out for the hard working Ingalls. Rating: 9/ 10, recommendation: anybody and everybody.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book last week and I fell in love with it! It's a wonderful classic. I loved the other two books as well and they're great! I recommend this to 9+ year olds! Five stars? Definately!
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I loved this series as a child, and have enjoyed them just as much as an adult. I read most of On the Banks of Plum Creek out loud to my two sons, aged 9 and 6, all in one afternoon, we were enjoying it so much. Laura is a brilliant character, tomboyish enough to appeal to boys as well as girls, and this is one of the most exciting books in the series! This series is a fascinating insight into life for a pioneer family and the very real hardships they endured, but it's also got some really timeless childhood experiences - the excitment of christmas presents, sibling rivalry, starting school, revenge on a bully, etc.
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Still magic
I gave this, with the next book in the series, to my niece who is 7 and she loves it. So did my sons at a similar age, so buy with confidence - it is one of those "classic" books... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Elmes
Being enjoyed by my 7 year old son
I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder series as a child. Her life as a child of pioneers was exciting and hard and beautifully described. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Ninjamarsh
Brilliant!!
The whole family is hooked on the TV series which we are watching on DVD. This lead us to get the books which my two girls ages 9 and 12 are reading. Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Scrace
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