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May 12, 2014
Read this series aloud to my daughter and we both loved it. I loved reading it as a child, but now I'm 40 years old and I love it in a much deeper way. I've cried tears at the beautiful simplicity and goodness of their life and their pioneer spirits. This is a perfect series to start with your child when he or she is 8 years old, or even 9 years old. When kids are 9-10 years old they need to explore how to take care of themselves in the world, and how humans create their survival out of the natural world. This is the perfect series to explore at that time. I think much of the interest for kids is found in how one could survive if one had to without all the modern technology, trappings. And, to learn that there was a long ago time where people were inventing things like grain separators and railroads! Isn't it fantastic to learn self reliance? It's very empowering!