None of the other "Little House Years" books are as good as the ones about Laura but other then the Laura books I prefer the Martha and Charlotte books. I don't enjoy the Caroline books as much because they are a bit uneven for me with some in the series being really good and others lacking. ( )

One of my favorite childhood books ( )

Martha is still a more interesting character - I actually do want to keep reading the series to learn about her. I suppose that, by making Caroline (and, really, all the little girls in these different series) rather generic, the little girls reading them can identify with them, empathize with them, better.

I also have a small nit to pick - it's highly unlikely that the books mentioned would have made it to Brookfield the year they did - they were very-newly published. I could be wrong, as Wilkes did more research than I, but if Caroline did indeed have access to these stories she was a very lucky girl.

ETA - I almost forgot a bigger problem I had with this - the massacre of the passenger pigeons! Yes, I know, at the time it was what was done. But it still seems wasteful. Especially because a lot of carcasses were abandoned on the town's streets, and the hogs were brought in to eat them up - pretty gruesome stuff for a book like this! ( )

love this series!!!!!! ( )

One story of the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Lots of fun and laughs, a good afternoon read. ( )