Book description
Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America's best-loved pioneer family.
After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prairie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town…
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1 author picked On the Banks of Plum Creek as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I still smile when I think of all the Little House on the Prairie books, though this was my favorite. The dramas may be small, but they feel real, and the wealth of small, skillfully woven details brings the characters and their world to life so that we can still relate to them, no matter how different our present-day world may be.
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