I just don't think its portrait of life as a pioneer should be as idealized as it has been. Seuss so clearly I cannot be trusted), but I do think the Little House books are examples of superior storytelling and its okay if you enjoy them. Now I realize this all sounds like blasphemy ( I also dislike Dr. As a kid I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and read them over and over, but then as I started to branch out, the overriding theme of rugged individualism and how "hard work can win all", started to grate on me, especially as the books are touted as a fictionalized version of what happened, yet are far from the truth. I did start Farmer Boy one summer, but they were so disturbed by the whipping in the first chapter that we put it down and never returned to it. I have a confession: I have never read the Little House books to my sons.
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