Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Review - Life with Lily

The Adventures of Lily Lapp: Book One - Life with Lily
By Mary Ann Kinsinger and Suzanne Woods Fisher
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 978-0800721329
Pub. Date: October 1, 2012
Pages: 288
Review: 

Set in New York on a small Amish Farm, six-year-old Lily Lapp and her younger brother, Joseph, eagerly welcomes their new baby brother, Dannie, into their lives, even though she actually wanted a baby sister.

While her father is busy building up the farm and her mother is busy with her brothers, young Lily is starting school at a one-room schoolhouse, where she meets new friends like the ornery Misty Mast, who is nothing but trouble for Lily.

Book one in The Adventures of Lily Lapp is aimed at ages 8 and up, but considers its length I can't see an eight-year-old reading the book. Middle-graders would be a more appropriate age group for the book, but older kids and adults can enjoy Lily's adventures too. There are thirty-nine short chapters that can be read all at once, or just read each one as a short story as each is a separate tale for Lily.  The book reminds me a lot of Little House on the Prairie, but Life with Lily is about a modern-day Amish girl. Life with Lily is a great way for kids to understand how the Amish live. Overall, I found the book to be a cute read and the character Lily is adorable.

*Note - I received a free copy from Litfuse Publicity and Tyndale in exchange for an honest review.




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About the Author:

Suzanne Woods Fisher lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has one husband, four children, one son-in-law, a brand new grand-baby, and a couple of dogs. She graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Suzanne has contracts with Revell for six more books about the Amish, both fiction and non-fiction. She is also the host of “Amish Wisdom·” on toginet.com, a weekly radio program featuring guests who are connected to Simple Living. Find out more about Suzanne at http://suzannewoodsfisher.com/.

2 comments:

  1. I find the obsession society is currently having with the Amish very intriguing indeed. It is especially shown in the television program "Breaking Amish", which I find more and more people addicted to each week. Could it be a yearning by society for simpler ways?

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  2. How cool! I've always been interested in the Amish - at least since I was in my teens. I would've loved this when I was younger.

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