Caroline

Little House, Revisited

By: Sarah Miller

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before—Caroline Ingalls, ""Ma"" in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books.

In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.

The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline’s new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles’ hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses.

For more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier’s most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our

slow at pounts but gives a different perspective.

someone reviewed it as as having graphic sex scenes. I had no experience like that. It is the story told by Carolines perspective. good. slow at times, but a good read.

fresh new eyes on a beautiful old story

If you loved Laura's point of view as a child you will definitely enjoy the same adventures from the older perspective of a young mother. The tone was perfect in that you could still enter the Little House's world so well known already, but in a way that was new, fresh and still brimming with wonder of what the next day's adventure might hold.
(I've already dug out my Little House books to re-read now because of this book 🥰)

Historical Fact...

One historical fact that you missed was that Independance MO. was found in 1827 and was a very large town. in 1870. It was where the Oregon Trail started.

It was ok

This book was not as fun as I remember “Little House on the Prairie” being.

mostly true

I did not dislike any of it, although the family story is a little different, it is that way with most families