On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Last week I finished reading On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder to the girls.  This is the fourth book of the Little House series.  In this book Laura and her family start their time in Minnesota on Plum Creek in a little sod house.  Later Pa builds a new house with manufactured boards, glass windows and a hinged door.

The wild game at Plum Creek was more scarce because it was a more settled area but they did find plenty of fish in the creek.  They were close enough to town that the family could attend church on Sundays and Laura and Mary could go to school.  The land was good and the wheat crop looked great until the grasshoppers came which meant Pa had to look for work elsewhere.

It has been a lot of fun reading about Laura’s adventures with the girls.  I am reading the same books to the girls that I read as a little girl.  They are always eager to have me read the next chapter to them.