Godey’s dress patterns, school exam nerves, the incredible taste of an orange, a town rising one storefront at a time - readers of Wilder’s work will savor the connections. Hanna, a more accomplished seamstress than Laura, shares an almost comical aversion to making buttonholes. The parallels to the Little House series are deliberate - and at times delicious.
But it also describes PRAIRIE LOTUS (Clarion, 272 pp., $16.99 ages 10 and up), the captivating new novel by the Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park, whose heroine, Hanna Edmunds, is half Chinese.
This might be “Little Town on the Prairie,” the seventh book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic series about a pioneer family.
In the spring of 1880, in a railroad town in Dakota Territory, a girl in her 15th year bends over her sewing to help support her family.
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