Searching for Laura Ingalls

by Kathryn Lasky

The award-winning team that created Sugaring Time and their daughter share their discoveries along the same journey followed by young pioneer Laura Ingalls and her family through South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Reprint.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History, Travel, Picture Books, Childrens, Juvenile

48 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Kathryn Lasky, also known as Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann, is an award-winning American author of over one hundred books for children and adults. Best known for the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, her work has been translated into 19 languages and includes historical fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction.

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

This reads very much like the essay that every kid has to write on the first day back from school "what I did on my summer vacation"

Except this kids parents are writers and they have a publisher. the father is a professional photographer for National Geographic so instead of cursive writing and wide ruled paper they made a nice little book out of it .
it was definitely worth the five minutes it took to read and I'm sure that this summer vacation will provide many memories for this little girl

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this exploration of a little girl trying to vie Laura Ingalls Wilder as she visits a few of her homes. Great for young readers to see different locales.

[HeavyReader · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't realize when I requested this book on BookMooch that it's a kid's picture book.

I thought it was going to be about an adult who goes searching for Laura Ingalls and learns some things...things about him or herself, if not about Laura Ingalls.

Instead, a upper middle class Eastcoast tween who is obsessed with Larua Ingalls drives around in an RV with her family, and they visit places where Ingalls lived as a child.

We don't get any new information about Laura Ingalls, but we do get several full color photos of the tween (Meribah Knight) looking pensively off into the distance.

My favorite part of the book is when Meribah goes swimming in Plum Creek, just like Laura Ingalls did. Meribah wears her clothes, just like Laura Ingalls did. Meribah even gets a leech on her foot, just like Laura Ingalls did!

I might have liked this book better if I had read it when I was seven.

[Lynda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Colorful photos of various Laura Ingalls Wilder historic home sites and museums accompany the text written by a young girl and her mother as they read the novels and explore the sites in the early 1990's.

[L Frost · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you just look at the pictures, the book is okay. But the writing is amateurish. Granted it is supposed to be a children's book, but it reads more like a parent who wants attention for their own child. Too many other interesting books about LIW to spend time on this one.

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am a huge Laura Ingalls Wilder fan, but reading about a girl tracing the footsteps of Laura with her parents on a journey many years ago just didn't appeal to me and hold my interest.

[Lauri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed it. These were more casual fans so it was interesting to read how they view the trip rather than as fan girls. I did like that they traveled by RV.

[Michael Fitzgerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice for those who wish they could make the trip, but will never do it. I could have used less of the sibling nonsense and more historical information.

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

On the trail of her life, visiting places she wrote about in her books.