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John Petropoulos johnpetropoulos — Finshed reading this to my younger sons last night; when I revisit Laura Ingalls Wilder these days, it tends to be her older ones. As a writer, she feels slightly less confident in this book: the chapters are more instructive and the use of stories-within-the-story was something she grew out of after this book. But it's still glorious. I love the honey tree, Ma making hats, Laura's jealousy of oh-so-perfect Mary, the astonishment of seeing a town for the first time; the excitement of the dance. I can't help noticing how much better off Pa was when he lived here: cows, pork, honey, abundant and varied vegetables, family around: there's a much more prosperous feel. Not for the first time, I feel for Ma having to become a pioneer wife when it's obviously not really her thing. Laura's love for Pa is never clearer than in this book: where most farming books end with harvenst, or the coming of warm weather, she finishes as winter closes in again, because winter means having Pa at home in the evening, with his fiddle and the security he brings them. The ending where she locates the little house in the present 'This is now, it can nevedr be long ago' is moving and elegaic. My boys enjoyed it, but not as much as my husband (who has strong elements of Pa in him, both as a parent and a handyman), who loved every chapter.