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Posted: Nov 13 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged Quote glinNC
We just finished the Little House series and came across another book entitled "In the Land of the Big Red Apple" by Roger Lea MacBride. Apparently, there are two other books in this series which are "before" this one and are about Rose's life (Laura's daughter). Has anybody read these? Are they as good as Little House series about Laura's childhood?

How about "The Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder" series? I have "Book 1" -- Missouri Homestead by T L Tedrow.

Any info you can share on these two series would be appreciated as we thoroughly enjoyed the LH series, but I am afraid to begin these other ones and spoil the fond feelings we have from LH. (I understand that the First Four Years was not "finished" the way the others were in the series and, consequently, not has good; so we opted not to read it.)

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Posted: Nov 13 2009 at 5:06pm | IP Logged Quote mathmama
I will be watching this thread. We are reading the LH series for the third time Each time we end dd#1 wants to start again. This time she says she wants to read one of the other series so I would like to hear some critiques as well.

Glin--yes the First Four Years is not that great of a book and we choose not to include it. I have read it myself along with the diary that Laura keeps when she and Almanzo and Rose move to Mansfield and also a book of letters that Laura writes to Almanzo while visiting Rose in San Francisco.

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Posted: Nov 14 2009 at 12:44am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
We have a lot of big LIW fans and afficianados here, so there are some older discussions on the series as well as the prequel series and sequel series. I think most here have voiced that they much prefer the prequels written by Lissa Wiley over the sequels about Rose written by McBride.

Interesting past threads with opinions and background on the series.
Little House - Prequels
Rose Wilder Lane

Laura Ingalls Tedrow Books

This is a nice listing of each series by author on Lissa Wiley's blog.

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Posted: Nov 16 2009 at 12:51am | IP Logged Quote Chari
There are a few reasons NOT to read the last two Rose Books by McBride...someone PLEEASE nag me to come comment on this.....though I prob did on one of those other threads

Though..........the first three, or four? are fun!

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The last Rose book involves her leaving home to be a telegraph operator in San Francisco. She falls in with a crowd of people who seem to spend all their spare time dancing and drinking. (To Rose's credit, she doesn't do much of the latter, but...) I would not want my 11yo daughter to read that book right now.

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