Friday, December 23, 2011

The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life / Jennifer Worick / 200 pages

This book was an enjoyable read. It's a mix between craft book, recipe book, gardening book, and party planning book. All of the chapters are based on a room of the house and have recipes or craft projects to do that fit with the room and are associated with the homsteading life. There's also information on saddling a horse, spinning your own yarn, canning, embroidery, and many other useful skills you should learn. Every few pages there's a vocabulary word or expression from the prairie life that is explained. The author often brings up Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House books. It would be a great gift for anyone you know who grew up reading the Little House books. It brings back so many memories of days spent reading by the fire or on the porch, learning about the life of the prairie girls in the books.

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