THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER COMPANION: A CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER GUIDE by Annette Whipple was published on August 4th 2020 by Chicago Review Press.
THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER COMPANION is a guide to help young readers delve deeper into the Little House books. Annette Whipple provides chapter-by-chapter guides of each of the nine Little House books in which she explains certain people, places, historical events, and things that today’s children might not know about or understand. She also provides lists of activities, crafts, and recipes that will help children “Live Like Laura” and gain a better understanding of how life was around a hundred and fifty years ago. At the end of each chapter, Whipple provides a list of questions that will encourage children to dig deeper into the stories.
THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER COMPANION is the book that I needed as a child. I started reading the Little House books when I was 7, and I spent a good amount of my childhood pretending that Laura and her sisters were my imaginary friends. I dressed my dolls up in prairie style dresses and hauled them around in a wagon made from a box. I built a log cabin out of popsicle sticks, and I spent hours playing with my miniature Ingalls family. I also read every book by Laura or about Laura that I could get my hands on. (And, clearly, I still do.) As a child, this book would have answered a lot of my questions. It also would have helped me with coming up with more activities to try in my quest to be more like Laura. Even as an adult, I learned a few new things. THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER COMPANION is a must read for all Little House enthusiasts regardless of their age.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.