

By the Shores of Silver Lake
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Series: Little House #5
Narrator: Cherry Jones
Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 02/07/2017
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Series: Little House #5
Narrator: Cherry Jones
Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 02/07/2017
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story.
Cherry Jones won the Tony® Award for best actress for both The Heiress and Doubt, and received two Tony® nominations for her work in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Our Country's Good; she can be seen in the films The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Cold Mountain.
Sniffs. Wipes away tear Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Oh, they grow up so fast, don't they? I do wish that this series could stay with Laura as a young girl -......more
One of the things I love about this series is how the prose grows with the protagonist. Four-year-old Laura lives in a world with short sentences and simple feelings, and thirteen-year-old Laura, who has had to broaden her vocabulary to help describe things to her blind sister, inhabits a text that......more
Alright... By the Shores of Silver Lake... You ready, Eleanor? E: Mm-hmm. Dad: Ok. Go for it. E: Um. Well. My favorite paaaarrrrt waaaassssss.... hmmmmmmm... hmmm. hmmm. hmmm. Chapter 8? I thiiiink. I think, daddy. I think... uh... My favorite part was when they went out in the shanty, and when they go......more
These books give such a view into the psyche of America back when the land was being settled. The pace is slow compared to today's literature, but there is something here. One of the best parts of the book is toward the end. The Ingalls family are living out on the prairie alone during the winter. T......more
Like every book in the series this one is filled with moments of poignant hardship (Mary going blind) and sweet levity. Pa’s wanderlust hasn’t rested, but he’s agreed for Ma’s sake to stay put. About time, is what I have to say to that. She put up with a lot, that woman.......more