Caroline: Little House, Revisited

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As an adult and mom myself, I am much more sympathetic to Caroline, but my heart will always side with Laura. She has written books about a huge variety of subjects, for all ages, and believes it's one of the best jobs in the world. Her concern about what she will do when her baby comes, with no other women around, brings a new dimension to reading about the experiences of a pregnant pioneer. Caroline's book is a plea, for policymakers, organisations, professionals, and the public, to exercise decency, challenge unsafe or unkind practice, support people in distress, and push for improved services. After exercising your right of objection, we will not process your personal data further for these purposes, unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

I have both liked and been rather exasperated with and by Sarah Miller's Caroline: Little House, Revisited, as while I have definitely enjoyed the additional information and reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie from Caroline's, from Ma Ingalls' point of view, I also feel that Sarah Miller has spent both far too much time in Caroline Ingalls' head and given us too much continuous and detailed information on bodily functions, on physical sensations (on such mundane scenarios as using the outhouse or getting dressed, details that while perhaps interesting to a point did not need to be so extensively belaboured and depicted over and over again).Caroline is well described, maybe not quite as placid and submissive as she comes across in the TV show, but with more laughter and sensuality about her. It mirrors the tale from Little House on the Prairie, but this time the story is told by Ma, not Laura. That’s an average of approximately one book every five months, and there are two more due later this year. But there is more to Goldberg than Beck realizes, and much more to Beck than her oh-so-perfect facade. I also thought Caroline was portrayed with a much weaker constitution and resolve than in my previous opinion.

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.

Lots of purple prose and lots of time spent inside Caroline's head with the same thoughts circling over and over. Questions and queries about the rights/publication should be directed to my agent, Sophie Lambert at Conville and Walsh. I encourage you to slow down and give yourself the time to fully appreciate Sarah Miller’s engaging writing in this wonderful read. To my surprise, some people have even suggested they’ve learned something, but that is icing on the cake.

You can object to the storage and use of your data for these purposes at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below. The book is a journey down the river Thames from source to sea, with a particular focus on the often-overlooked landscape of the estuary. Some of my favorite scenes from the Ingalls Family’s story are included, only now from Caroline’s perspective, and I couldn’t help but smile while I was reading. When the community is invited to take sides the post goes viral, with mild-mannered Roy ending up in the national newspapers and sparking protests at his local library. I wouldn’t recommend this book for children, unless you’re reading it with them, and possibly only for older children at that.The cover is as close to Karen Grassle’s Caroline Ingalls from the TV show, so without knowing who it was supposed to be, I would have picked it out as being her. From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923. This book very much carries the perspective of an adult-Caroline who was valued as the center of the home, who was beloved by Charles, who knew she had very little privacy with her husband but took advantage of that time anyway.