We have been reading Gene Stratton Porter books for "read alouds" this last semester. The girls and I have enjoyed them. Reading aloud together for school make up some of our best "joyful moments."
Both of these books are set in the 1920's in the Limberlost of Indiana. These stories reflect Porter's own life. They include a lot of natural history and we often found ourselves looking up flowers, birds and moths on the internet to see what she was talking about. These stories evoke the feeling of another time when society was much more concerned with truth, honor and manners. Lovely life lessons taught in passing. While looking on Amazon, I found they have a Kindle edition with 10 Stratton Porter books for 3.99 that we downloaded to our Fire. Great find!
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