A Series By Laura Ingalls Wilder

All the girls in third grade happened to be reading these books. I don't remember where I learned about them - I think it was from the local public library Mom took us to often - they may have had highlighted the books with a special display & it caught onto me like it was meant to. I got a few books in, which is when I learned that most of the rest of my class in school was also reading them - though quite a few of the girls were much further along & had read them in order of their writing (I'd not realized that the few I'd read weren't even in the logical order of how they were originally written & published).

It was never that I didn't intend to finish reading the books, though I'll admit, with classroom homework, other books on the "need to read" list, & general obligations, especially as girls in class finished reading all of them - and I was so far from that goal, I did waiver (I didn't *give up*!) I just ended up not [yet] finishing each one. 😔 I believe this is about when I really began to recognize the slowness of my personal reading skill, which is still an issue for me. It's always seemed to take me quite some time, much time longer than it probably should, to adequately make my way through most any reading. If I work on my speed, then I lose content, & don't get as much out of my pursuit...so I remain taking my time & reading rather slowly...As long as I keep reading the next line & then the next paragraph, I do eventually find my way to the last page (without jumping ahead while still at the beginning of the book 😂).

I also remember struggling to understand how this one wasn't the first book as it was about "firsts", which to me meant it should be one of the first in the set. I've since been educated. 😄

Since third grade I've also learned about this television show starring Melissa Gilbert & Michael Landon which were based upon the books. Though I've never seen it, many viewers adored & admired the show & its actors.


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