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Farmer Boy (Little House) | 
 enlarge | Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 606973
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Newly Illustrated Edition
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2
ASIN: B0002TX4WA
Publication Date: October 14, 1953
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Product Description
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. This is Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of how her husband Almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived.
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 Every child should be read aloud this book August 13, 2008
Every child should be read aloud this book and every other Laura Ingalles Wilder book. They are so heart felt and let you step into olden days with such a wonderful family. I was enchanted by these books as a kid. Must, must read!!!
 Farmer Boy July 1, 2008
This was purchased for my 10 year old son. He loves it. It arrived in good condition.
farmer boy January 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I read this book, I got interest for pioneer life. I get suprised, because he, Almannzo, do all of his work and helps his family. And he went school that is far away from his house in snow days and in hot summer. I also impressed that his toy is the sled that made out from tree, and it is all hand maded. Today we usualy uses sled, but we don't use sled that are made out of trees. I thought he lead a full life solid. I don't want to live back that time, but I want to play with Almanzo and I want to ask more about his life in farm.
 Harder, simpler times of days gone by in the life of an eight-year-old farm boy December 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having somehow never read Little House on the Prairie or anything else by Laura Ingalls Wilder as a child, I find myself reading Farmer Boy because my favorite eight-year-old bookworm "BW" is reading it in school. They have little in common. The title character, Almanzo, the youngest of the four Wilder children, lives on a farm in northern New York at a time when (p 28) "children must be seen and not heard." Truly. Almanzo (who in real-life grew up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls) awakens at 5:30 to do his chores, BW two hours later to get ready for school. Almanzo trudges a mile and a half in 40 below weather to a one-room schoolhouse, BW rides four miles in a heated car. Almanzo returns on foot at dusk and milks a couple of cows, BW returns by bus, eats a snack, relaxes and spends half an hour on homework. Almanzo rejoices over his two hand-made birthday gifts, BW would probably be disappointed to receive similar, assuming I could even create such things. Almanzo's father threatens him with a beating when his carelessness almost results in his own death by drowning or hypothermia, BW (and most, I hope) would have been transported quickly home for hugs, heat and hot cocoa. Obviously written in an entirely different day and age, the story does have some non-pc moments, including a negative reference to Native Americans, a similarly problematic name for a type of bread, an incident involving a stingy ungrateful person forced to give a considerable reward under duress and, a teacher who wields a whip. Even so, Farmer Boy is an excellent depiction of the joys and hardships of rural farm life in the late 1800s, which compares well (in hardship at least) with the stories I've heard about my ND homesteader ancestors. Also good: The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, The Time Warp Trio series by Jon Scieszka, and A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
Great Motivational book for children May 17, 2007
If your kids complain that you give them too many chores to do and they never get any time to have fun this book should be a must read! Not only does it contain numerous lessons about farming techniques and problems but it also shows how much a little boy of 10 years is capable of doing and how willing and proud he is of doing it. I was very impressed with the book and found myself reading it on my own, without my child. Laura Ingalls Wilder has quite a talent in putting pictures down in words. Almanzo Wilder's one year in this book was facinating and enlightening. I have a much larger appreciation for both what times were like and how much easier they are now.
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