We're starting this week with an Amish book, and ending next Monday with another one!
Welcome to our stop on the Life With Lily tour today!
We told you about the author's giveaway last week for an ereader,
and the entry deadline is today at noon (Pacific), so hurry on over and enter to win, if you haven't and then come back for the review!
Synopsis: Book 1 in the ‘Adventures of Lily Lapp’ series.
Lily is six in this story, just starting first grade in a one-room
schoolhouse in upstate New York. Her parents are busy building a farm,
and soon animals join the family—Jenny the cow and Chubby the miniature
horse. A baby brother arrives, too, which Lily has mixed feelings about.
(She wanted a sister!) Aside from a mischievous friend like Mandy Mast,
Lily is happy at school and even happier at home. Trouble is brewing at
the schoolhouse and change is on the horizon for Lily and her family.
Read an excerpt on the Litfuse site!
Review: This is an adorable book! It reminds me very much of the Laura Ingalls/Little House on the Prairie series that we had growing up. You will laugh with Lily and share in her grief at having an 'ugly baby brother' for example, and at how her delights in her simple world come through in brilliant color to the reader. isn't it amazing how young kids see things as they truly are, without our adult shaded nuances we put on things? The series is aimed at kids 8-12, but Kiddo loved the chapters, and lovely ink drawings, we read together and wanted to know more about Lily's life, so I'll keep reading it to her! I can see the series growing as Lily grows (it is set to be the first of 4), and new situations arise in her world. I hope it does, as I know Kiddo will be reading it! We highly recommend it for all the young girls in your life!
About the Authors:
Mary Ann Kinsinger was raised Old Order Amish in Somerset County,
Pennsylvania. She met and married her husband, whom she knew from
school days and started a family. After they chose to leave the Amish
church, Mary Ann began a blog, A Joyful Chaos, as a way to
capture her warm memories of her childhood for her own children. From
the start, this blog found a ready audience and even captured the
attention of key media players, such as the influential blog AmishAmerica and the New York Times. She lives in Pennsylvania.
Suzanne Woods Fisher is the bestselling author of The Choice, The Waiting, The Search, The Keeper, and The Haven, as well as nonfiction books about the Amish, including Amish Peace. Her interest in the Anabaptist cultures can be directly traced to her grandfather, W. D. Benedict, who was raised in the Old Order German Baptist Brethren Church in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Suzanne is a Christy Award nominee and is the host of an internet radio show called Amish Wisdom. She lives in California.
Suzanne Woods Fisher is the bestselling author of The Choice, The Waiting, The Search, The Keeper, and The Haven, as well as nonfiction books about the Amish, including Amish Peace. Her interest in the Anabaptist cultures can be directly traced to her grandfather, W. D. Benedict, who was raised in the Old Order German Baptist Brethren Church in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Suzanne is a Christy Award nominee and is the host of an internet radio show called Amish Wisdom. She lives in California.
Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book for review purposes on this blog, free of charge, from Litfuse PR. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.
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