Posts about books, reading, and literature.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'The Long Winter' tells the story of the Ingalls family surviving seven months of blizzards in Dakota Territory. It shows how the whole town nearly starves and how two brave boys save everyone.
Pietje Puk, the sunny postman of Keteldorp, finds himself caught up in a big village secret.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'By the Shores of Silver Lake' tells the story of the Ingalls family moving to Dakota Territory. It shows Laura taking on more responsibility as the family starts a new chapter on the wide open prairie.
It is the thirty-first book in the Asterix series. Asterix and Obelix share a birthday. Their mothers visit and try to find them wives.
Lucky Luke is hired to guide a wagon train of settlers across the plains to California, while a hidden saboteur among them tries to wreck the journey.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'On the Banks of Plum Creek' tells the story of the Ingalls family settling near a creek in Minnesota. It shows Laura going to school for the first time and facing grasshopper plagues.
Pietje Puk, the cheerful postman of Keteldorp, meets a mysterious white ghost in this gentle and playful village mystery.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House on the Prairie' tells the story of the Ingalls family leaving Wisconsin to start a new life on the Kansas prairie. It shows the excitement and danger of building a home in the wilderness.
The Daltons keep breaking out of prison, so the governor lets them go free on the condition that they reform, with Lucky Luke shadowing their every step.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Farmer Boy' tells the story of Almanzo Wilder growing up on a big farm in New York State. It shows the hard work, good food, and exciting adventures of a boy who loves horses.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House in the Big Woods' tells the story of a little girl named Laura who lives with her family in a log cabin deep in the Wisconsin woods. It shows their fun daily life, food, and adventures long ago.
Pietje Puk fools Keteldorp, playing a cheerful trick on the whole village.
The Daltons break out, rename themselves the Jones brothers and flee north into a Canadian winter, with Lucky Luke and a Mountie on their trail.
The ever-optimistic postman of Keteldorp finds himself in a tight spot, and must rely on his good cheer and quick wits to come through.
The Senate sends a survey party led by Luke into the Black Hills of Wyoming, ignoring the Cheyenne who already live there and a senator bent on sabotage.
Pietje Puk finds himself in a panic when things in Keteldorp do not go to plan, and the cheerful postman must keep his head amid the muddle.
Lucky Luke takes on the West's most notorious young outlaw, the brattish and trigger-happy Billy the Kid.
Pietje Puk's tireless good work is recognised when he is named postman of the year.
The Last Battle concludes Narnia as deception leads to its end, with King Tirian fighting a false Aslan.
Two feuding clans, the O'Haras and the O'Timmins, have shot at each other for so long over a stolen something that nobody can recall the cause, and Lucky Luke must end the feud in Painful Gulch.
Pietje Puk, the cheerful postman, steps up to save his little village of Keteldorp when trouble comes.
It is the thirtieth book in the Asterix series. Obelix turns to stone after drinking too much magic potion. The Gauls sail to Atlantis to find a cure.
In The Silver Chair, Eustace and Jill embark on a quest to find Caspian’s lost son, guided by Aslan’s signs through Narnia’s underworld.
Oil is struck near a quiet town, and Lucky Luke must keep order as prospectors, swindlers and a ruthless tycoon scramble to control the new derricks.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader sends Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and cousin Eustace sailing east to find lost lords and reach Aslan’s country.