Little House on the Prairie: A Reread
When I look at my books in my home, most of them are relatively new. I'd say that most were purchased within the last 10-15 years of my life. Any books that I had from my childhood are still in my childhood home or have been boxed up and donated somewhere else. All of my childhood books except one series: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series. After getting the box set way back before high school from the Scholastic Book Orders, I took them with me wherever I moved. But while I owned all the books, I actually haven't read them. They have simply taken up space on the shelf, and I look at them and remember reading through the series very early on in my life, and then rereading them several times after that. This spring my 3rd and 4th graders read Little House in the Big Woods for Reading class, and it was fun to dive into that book again. As I continued to read, I read new things that I had skimmed over as a child, and learned to enjoy sections tha