The Little Silver House

by Jennie D. Lindquist

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844661902
• ISBN13: 9780844661902
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6

Customer Reviews

Wholesome, Worthwhile, and Well Written

The second in a trilogy by Jennie Lindquist, this is a book worth reading, whether you are eight or eighty. Any fan of Tasha Tudor or Kate Seredy will appreciate it. A non-Swedish girl, in a Swedish American rural community about a hundred years ago, finds herself appreciating their values, values which make all Americans the same. It is a story of real American values of hard work, tolerance, and understanding which would help all Americans of today understand where we came from and how to tolerate and understand others.

Simple story with some profound thoughts

I remembered this as a favorite from my childhood, and had to search for it for my daughter. It has some wonderful underlying themes of love for family, respect for others, and perhaps quite unusual for our times, the idea that children and their needs can have an important place within the family but not exclusively. Nancy is living with "Grandma and Grandpa" Benson when her mother is ill, and she becomes part of a tight-knit group of Swedish cousins, who share their customs and holidays with Nancy. It's a delightful book on it's own merits, but has the added bonus of wonderful illustrations by Garth Williams (illustrator of the Laura Ingalls Wilder series). This book is part of a trilogy, with The Crystal Tree and The Golden Name Day containing the same characters.