{"id":2073,"date":"2014-12-28T00:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T16:04:50","slug":"laddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/laddie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Delicious Read, Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I want to tell you about my favorite book:\u00a0Laddie, A True Blue Story<\/a>.<\/em> It\u2019s not very often that you find such a warm, family-value-oriented book. It is a treasure! The best part of it was reading it out-loud to my children. I found it taught just as much as a sermon . . . with my family chuckling along the way and begging for more. And there is lots more\u2014416 pages of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From the eyes of Little Sister (the youngest child living in a big family on a farm in the newly settled Midwest in the 1900\u2019s), we get a tantalizing taste of strong family values and faith in God. . . full of adventures and scrapes\u2014love stories too\u2014with a kind and devoted mother, a protective wise father, and a loving older brother, Laddie, as superb role models that I want to follow!<\/p>\n

Leon, a young brother, provides lots of humor, just being a boy. Little Sister, through whose eyes the story unfolds, finds school squelching to her free spirit, and it is hard not to commiserate with her as she explains her reasons for loathing the classroom. The mother and father are remarkable Christians in spite of the many challenges of taming a new land. Such a sweet story of wholesome, decent, loving family life!<\/p>\n

Get it at your library, borrow it from a friend, get if from my bookstore<\/a> . . . but read it! It will definitely enrich your life. \u00a0Read it aloud to your children. \u00a0It is as good as taking a vacation!
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I want to tell you about my favorite book:\u00a0Laddie, A True Blue Story. It\u2019s not very often that you find such a warm, family-value-oriented book. It is a treasure! The best part of it was reading it out-loud to my children. 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