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Title: On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 by Laura Ingalls Wilder ISBN: 0-06-440080-8 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 20 October, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: On The Way Home
Comment: For the children who loved Little House on the Prairie series;this is for you. On the Way Home is about an eight year old girl traveling with family toward her new home. There were many adventures that the Wilder family encountered "on the way home." there are parts in this book that would keep you on edge. This book would appeal to children under the age of ten. Laura Ingalls Wilder has published many interesting books for children including this one. On The Way Home is a book that would teach a child about the hardships of life in the eighteen hundreds. On the Way Home is a book that would interest children to read more books like this one. HAPPY READING!
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful mother-daughter collaboration
Comment: "On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894," by Laura Ingalls Wilder, really brings to life this era in American history. The book is actually a collaboration between Laura and her daughter, writer Rose Wilder Lane; Rose's introduction and concluding chapter "sandwich" Laura's journal entries.
As the author of the "Little House" book series and as the subject of a long-running television series based on those books, Laura Ingalls Wilder is a truly beloved figure in American popular culture. "On the Way Home" offers an excellent opportunity to "hear" her speak directly from a real-life adventure. Her trek with her husband, Almanzo, and daughter Rose is a classic pioneer tale.
The book is well complemented by a wealth of black-and-white photographs of the family, as well as of the architecture, artifacts, landscapes, and animals that were part of their world. There is also a map of their route.
Laura's prose is very engaging. She writes of the natural landscape, plants, and animals they encountered along the way. She also gives a sense of the ethnic and religious diversity of that time and region. Her journal entries capture the excitement of the growing cities and towns.
This is a short book (120 pages), but it is full and fascinating. When Laura writes of such pleasures as wading in a warm river or picking wild blackberries, you can imagine yourself standing beside her. Recommended as a companion text: "O Pioneers!", by Willa Cather.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Wilder family moves
Comment: 'On the Way Home' is Laura's diary as they traveled from DeSmet to their new home in Mansfield, Missouri. There are pictures included in this book that take you back to Laura's time and can make you feel even more like you know Laura.
This book is very interesting and is a quick read. The book starts with Rose Wilder Lane telling us about the events leading up to the Wilder's move to Missouri in 1894.
The majority of the book is Laura's actual diary. It begins on the day they set out (July 17, 1894) and continues through to the day they arrived in Mansfield (August 30, 1894). Laura includes in her entries things such as the temperature, what time they started in the morning, how many emigrant wagons they saw, what towns they drove through and what rivers and creeks they crossed. Laura also wrote down things that occurred along the way. For example, a lame horse, a lost dog, conversations with strangers and wading in creeks.
Also included in the book is a map of their journey. I found this interesting and referred to it often as Laura named the towns they drove through and stopped at. It was nice to see the route they took. At the end of the book, Rose wrote some more. She wrote about the search for a home, an important thing being lost and then found again, a description of Mansfield, moving into the new home and so on.
This book is not an 'edge of your seat' type, but it is interesting for those who are fans of Laura Ingalls and the Little House books and for those who like to learn about days gone by.
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Title: West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 by Laura Ingalls Wilder ISBN: 0064400816 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 20 October, 1976 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Little House (9 Books, Boxed Set) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams ISBN: 0064400409 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $62.91 |
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Title: Laura Ingalls Wilder : A Biography by William Anderson ISBN: 0064461033 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Laura's Album : A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson ISBN: 0060278420 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams ISBN: 006440031X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 14 October, 1953 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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