Through A Child’s Eye
The Little House books blend fiction and nonfiction, and they do so by taking the real-life childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder and telling them through her perspective as she was growing up. This made for great reading, and as Laura said, “The spirit of the frontier was one of humor and cheerfulness no matter what happened. It shines through all the volumes of my children’s novel.”
The one book that was not from Laura’s perspective was Farmer Boy, which detailed the life of her husband Almanzo from when he was a boy. Whether you want to see the books as true-to-life accounts of what happened or as escapism, you will come away happy.
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