Little Clearing in the Woods: Little House, The Caroline Years - Softcover

Maria D. Wilkes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064406520 ISBN 13: 9780064406529

Publisher: HarperTrophy, 1998

Synopsis

Caroline--the future mother of Laura Ingalls--and her family pack up their belongings and move from the little town of Brookfield to a new house among the big trees of Concord, Wisconsin. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Author:

Maria D. Wilkes first read the Little House books as a young girl and has been fascinated by pioneer history ever since.She did extensive research on the Quiner, Ingalls, and Wilder families, studied original sources and family letters and diaries, and worked in close consultation with several historians and the Laura Ingalls Wilder estate as she wrote the Caroline Years books.She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Peter, and her daughters, Grace and Natalie.

From Kirkus Reviews:

paper 0-06-026998-7 The family of Laura Ingalls Wilder is marketed practically to death with the appearance of another entry in the Little House/The Caroline Years series: Caroline, Laura's mother, is a child moving with her family to the Wisconsin woods. Wilkes is less concerned with characterization than in getting the family from one place to another, and settled in their new home. A description of their disastrous first crop is quickly followed by a solution to their threat of hunger. Hints of the characters' qualities peek through, as when Caroline wonders if ``some new person'' is ``stuck inside'' her increasingly fastidious sister. A flash of an argument between them brings the book temporarily to life, but it quickly settles back into a carefully planned script, charting a path from the move until the courtship of Caroline's mother, a widow. It's a genial volume, but can't hold a candle to Wilder's vividly evoked pioneer days, nor even to Roger Lea MacBride's Little House episodes about Rose Wilder (Little Farm in the Ozarks, 1994, etc.). (Fiction. 8-12) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTrophy
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0064406520
• ISBN 13: 9780064406529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321
• Editor: Alicia Mikles
• Illustrator: Dan Andreasen