Laura Ingalls Wilder is starting a new life with her husband, Almanzo, in their own little house on the prairie. They work hard to carve a life for themselves on their farm, and soon their daughter Rose is born. But the first four years of their marriage leads to many trials and hardships Laura and Almanzo never could have prepared for.
Book #9 in the Little House series. 134 pages.
Laura Ingalls is teaching on a claim shanty twelve miles away from her family in Dakota Territory. She is desperately homesick and unhappy, but perseveres to help Ma and Pa pay for her sister Mary’s education at a college for the blind. Every Sunday Almanzo Wilder comes to bring her home, and soon Laura is happily home again, where she can join in singing lessons and sleigh rides—and, perhaps best of all, go on buggy rides with Almanzo.
Book #8 in the Little House series. 289 pages.
With the end of the long winter comes spring socials, dances, and literaries. Despite an active social life, Laura remains as busy as ever on the farm and working at various odd jobs so Pa and Ma can afford for Laura's sister Mary to go to a special college for the blind.
Book #7 in the Little House series. 307 pages.
As the Ingalls family settles in Dakota Territory, the settlers are warned a hard winter looms. After the first blizzard hits in mid-October, Pa decides to heed the warning and moves the family into his store building in town. Blizzards repeatedly sweep the town, and supplies like coal, food, and fuel become commodities. Families resort to using burning hay to keep warm, but even that soon runs low. Rumors swirl around town about a settler who has enough hay to last the town the rest of the winter, and Almanzo Wilder risks his life to save the town.
Book #6 In the Little House series. 335 pages.
Laura Ingalls and her family once again find themselves traveling, this time heading from Minnesota to Dakota Territory. Pa works to build the new railroad as he scouts out a new homestead, briefly leaving Ma and the girls behind. They later take their first train ride to Silver Lake, where they spend the winter in the surveyors' house. In the spring, residents begin to build what will become the town of De Smet, South Dakota.
Book #5 in the Little House series. 385 pages.
Laura Ingalls and her family journey north in their covered wagon to Minnesota, settling in a sod house along Plum Creek. As she and her sisters help Ma around the house, Pa works to plant crops and build them a sturdier home, and soon Laura and Mary start attending school in town. But after a terrible winter and a grasshopper infestation, which devours Pa's crops, the Ingalls are left questioning their future in Minnesota.
Book #4 in the Little House series. 384 pages.
Growing up on his family farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wants a horse of his very own more than anything. When his father insists he's not quite responsible enough, Almanzo sets out show his father he is highly capable, as he ensures the farm runs smoothly with the help of his brother and sisters.
Book #2 in the Little House series. 384 pages.
Book #3 in the Little House series. 335 pages.
In 1871, four-year-old Laura Ingalls lives in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. In this first book in the Little House series, pioneer times are cast in an idyllic light as Pa and Ma farm the land on which their log cabin sits, Laura and her sisters Mary and Carrie celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, everyone pitches in for the spring planting and fall harvest, and the sound of Pa's fiddle lulls the family to sleep, safe in their cabin.
Book #1 in the Little House series. 198 pages.
...So banana boat, anyone?
FRAAAAAAANK. I love him so much.
So I loved getting to see more of my babies...
I love Leo.
Sucky haikus. I can get behind that.
I just love picturing Toothless in a little winter coat. He is so ridiculous and I love him. He is so spiteful in such a childish way. I'm not cold. Actually I'm really hot. I need to go home to cool down. Toothless being cheeky never gets old. I will always love the way David Tennant plays him.
There were dragons when I was a boy...How dare they..
I do love when one character is exasperated by the ridiculousness of the characters and situations around them... And there was a knitting shout-out...so I feel acknowledged.
I love that Toothless is learning to be polite...and he's so proud of himself.
Toothless. Heart Eyes. Enough said. The stupid stubborn wonderful baby who eats everything and never learns his lessons.
So I've been trying to read this book for like three years....so it was kind of hard for me to get through it....but once I sat down and listened to it, it went by pretty fast... maybe I'm just not in the right head-space for it.... Maybe it's because it's not Percy. *shrug emoji* I'm tired.
