Farmer Boy

Just the few chapters we've read, the book is definitely a good one,well written. We homeschoolers so we really love these types of stories filled with living ideas 😁. The book cover is strong and presentable and pages smell amazing as my daughter like to soak up inside the book and say 😅

ローラの視点ばかりでなく、少年版も欲しいと思い聴いてみました。 改めて聴いてみると、Little house series と違い、ローラの回想がメインでないので、会話が少ないのが意外でした。 読むのがLittle house on the prairie よりゆっくりなので非常に聴き取りやすくよかったです（少なくとも第1章は）。

L'ensemble des ouvrages écrits par Laura Ingalls est vraiment plus que passionnant, car elle décrit avec des détails vraiment très précis le mode de vie quotidien des pionniers de l'ouest américain. On ne pêut être qu'ébahi et admiratif devant le courage et l'ingéniosité de ces gens qui faisaient absolument tout avec rien. Un must à lire par tous les passionnés de l'époque.

Meet Almanzo Wilder, years before he headed west and met Laura. This is the story of his childhood, and the events and people that shaped him into the man he would become. Here Almanzo lives on a big farm in New York state owned by his father. His father is a wealthy farmer, but the family works tirelessly to maintain that status. They are self-sustaining: sowing and reaping crops, building/making most of their own equipment and goods, raising livestock, and training horses and oxen. Almanzo wants nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps, even as his older brother Royal begins to yearn for town life. He begrudges his schooling as something that gets in the way of becoming proficient on the farm, but his parents impress upon him that even farmers need an education. Still. When it's time to work the fields, everyone stays home from school and pitches in. It's a hard life, but it's a clean and proud one as well. Farmer Boy describes farm life in vivid detail, with an exceptionally strong focus on food. Seriously, the detailed descriptions of food, both in how it was prepared and in how it looked, smelled, and tasted once on the table, are mouthwatering. How things were built is also quite descriptive, with everything except dimensions spelled out as Father builds a bobsled for Almanzo to begin helping with hauling timber. It's a cheerful and optimistic look at the hard life of farming, and while the great effort and long days required of a farmer are well-covered here, there is none of the scarcity or hardship that many of the other Little House books depict. Almanzo's childhood sounds ideal, but it's really only a couple of years that are included in this book, so it makes sense that Laura only focused on the period of time she felt stood out from her own childhood. It's a heartwarming book that teaches a sense of family, hard work, and responsibility.

Good book for 9-10 yr olds