Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

Oh, boy!

Little Willy was with his grandfather. One day, as the story took place in grandfather's house-barn, grandfather didn't want to get up from bed. He was staying stock still.

Little Willy called the doctor. She came and well, she said "Well, he wants to die." But Little Willy said "oh, no, no, no, he's not going to die!"

An old man came up and said "taxes-we need your taxes." Then in the strong box was all the taxes: $500! I think that was too much!

Willy was headstrong so he wanted grandfather to get better then he wanted to go in a dog race. And then this Indian came up. He never lost before.

In the middle of it-10 feet away from the finish line-then the dog DIED! The Indian made a line and said "anyone who crossed the line he would shoot." Willy won all with the help of an Indian.

Wasn't that a sad ending? Oh, I forgot one thing: the grandfather gets better.

The Chocolate Touch

I read at school The Golden Touch. It was really, really, really, COOL because all his things turned to gold and then he said I didn't want that. A substitute told me a story the chocolate touch where the boy turns his mom into chocolate because of a magic chocolate. Then I got to read it at home with Mommy.

I really thought it was scary because he got into all this big trouble at school.

Busybody Nora by Johanna Herwitz

Busybody Nora asked this lady what her name was and this woman in the elevator said “Mrs. Mind Your Own Business” so she thought that was her actual name, but she really said it because she wanted Nora to mind her own business. In the end, Nora got everybody’s name right except Mrs. Mind Your Own Business. They had a big party.

Nora wanted to know all the names of all the people in the apartment building.

The Moffats by Eleanor Estes

One day Jane Moffat was sitting on a post. She wanted to go upside down for a while. So she did at this broken down old house that she liked. She went inside and she had a cat. The BIG PROBLEM of the book was THE OWNER WAS GOING TO SELL THEIR HOUSE!

This family looked all over the house and wanted to buy it. At the end they had to move. The end.

Little Town on the Prairie and These Happy Golden Years

Little Town on the Prairie

Laura felt happy when they moved to town because she had friends in town like Almanzo and the people at school. I feel happy when I have friends at school.

Laura felt nervous with her president’s thing. She had to practice learning their names and telling all about them. She said it in front of the whole town. I felt nervous when I had to recite John 3:16 in the play.

Laura felt upset when Nellie Oleson came to school because she took the candy from Cap when he was trying to give it to Mary Power. I feel upset when Caroline takes my toys and Molly destroys my creations when I’m in school and Nathaniel yells at me.

At the end of the book, Mary had to go to school. Laura got a teacher certificate.

Almanzo walked Laura home from the church. Laura doesn’t understand that. I think it’s cool because they are really the right type to be together.

These Happy Golden Years

These Happy Golden Years was the best book I loved. When These Happy Golden Years are done, oh, but I have to tell you the beginning!

She went to school. Nellie Oleson was there-dun, dun, DUN!!

I liked it because when she taught school for the third time and when they went driving, Almanzo and Laura didn’t talk much. I wish they talked more often.

Laura changed because she got married and she was shy about it.

Almanzo was a shy sort (I’m just kidding). Almanzo was good at working and building houses and training horses, too. He trained six horses. One were Barnum and Skip. Barnum was WILD! I liked him. I liked Skip, too because Skip was not really wild.

And they got married. There were only two people there. They went back to Laura’s house then they ate dinner and then they went to Almanzo and Laura’s house.

Pa gave her the cattle-just one cattle. And Laura looked around and she loved it.

The end

Mommy’s note: We loved looking at why Almanzo was a good man and good husband material. I asked Evelyn, will your husband be patient, kind, and gentle like Almanzo? Evelyn said, “yes, but he’ll also be WILD like out in the woods with the horses and outdoors.” Also when we finished this book, Evelyn sighed and said quietly, “I will always remember this night…”

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Evelyn with a sad face since this was such a sad book!

Laura helped Pa with the hay and then Pa needed another part for his mowing machine section. On the way back the went through the slough and got lost and saw the pretty horses.

It's called The Long Winter because there was lots and lots and lots of blizzards. Grace was in the rocking chair with her little coat on. Laura and Mary had coats on.

They had to eat potatoes and bread that Ma made. They didn't have enough to eat because the train didn't come because it froze-freezed-frozen!

This is the most exciting part. Pa went to town to get some kitchen supplies and food and an Indian went in. He pointed up 5 and 2. And he said "7 months blizzard."

Pa built a house in town.

Cap Garland was throwing a ball and Laura dropped her books and caught it. Almanzo cooks some pancakes. He made good pancakes-yes, he did!

The End

By The Shores of Silver Lake

The Beauty of Silver Lake

The beginning of the book was sad because everybody got sick and then everybody got better and all the sickness went to Mary’s eyes. Then Jack died! I cried when Jack died.  And then they had to go on a train ride. They were going west to the shores of Silver Lake.

Laura and her cousin Lena went horseback riding. I wish I could. WithOUT the back things for the horses and they had to hold on to his mane (or her mane).

Mr and Mrs Boast, the Boast family, moved in to their house. It was great, it was wonderful. She taught them how to make a corner whatnot. It’s a shelf that goes in the corner.

Pa put trees and then Grace got lost. They found her in a big huge place with daisies and daises and daises or whatever flowers they were. The end.