Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
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Tagged: Little house books

This topic has 4 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 3 months ago by galpinlo.

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December 31, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Kelly Bond
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Has anyone read these to very young children (my son is 4 1/2)? Or do you recommend just starting on the full-length versions? I’m eager to read these to my son but am not sure which way to go.
thanks!
December 31, 2009 at 4:37 pm
RobinP
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I read these to my little guy and he loved them. They are basically excerpts from the real book. Then this year we’ve read Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie. He recoginzed some of the parts we had read in the younger version.
December 31, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Cindie2dds
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Wow, I did even know they made younger versions. We started with Little House in the Big Woods. My oldest enjoyed it, but it lost my youngest’s attention even though it was about young sisters. We’ll try again later. Good to know. Thanks!
December 31, 2009 at 9:44 pm
nerakr
Participant
We’ve read some of these. Ds5 loves them. Several days ago we began Little House in the Big Woods as a bedtime read-aloud. He liked it, too. Whether I’ll continue with the First Little House series for dd2 or not I don’t know.
Karen
January 2, 2010 at 11:53 am
galpinlo
Member
Hello — I started reading these to my daughter last year – she is now 2 1/2 – and she LOVES them — we have almost all of them. Nice illistrations by Renee Graff. Moreover, nice simple themes about sharing, happily helping out with chores, singing with family, receiving and giving simple gifts: birthday and Christmas, and enjoying the outdoors, and storing / preparing food for winter nourishment. I highly recommend. Sometimes I include some extra ideas while reading about saying grace/singing songs to God as these books are more secular compared to the original stories.
Side Note: Do not recommend Deer in Woods as it has conflicting/confusing message about no meat in cold winter. Generally these books support many Weston A Price themes for traditional nutrition and health with actions or even just by the pictures: making cheese from raw milk, culturing vegetables in crocks, curing meats for the winter… so the Deer in Woods book seemed inconsistent with life in the Big Woods.
-lg