The Children's Blizzard

I found parts of this book to be “slow” reading; but I’m glad I persevered through until the storm hit.

This book traces the big blizzard on January 13, 1888, that came to be known as “The Children’s Blizzard” because so many children were sent home from school and died in the storm.

I loved the way the author went back to the original home places of the characters in the story and showed WHY these families had left Norway, Germany, Sweden, Russia etc to settle on the American Plains. I was able to identify with this book and its story as we’ve ministered in a farming/ranching community in MT where the old-timers had stories of blizzards and such like this one. It was also fun to pause and think of the Russian/German families we met while living on the plains and the stories they told from this time-period.

This book tied in incredibly well with our study on the western-expansion of America. I even found mention of Laura Ingalls Wilder in the book. I think that anyone who is interested in this time period of history, weather, or even medical differences between the 19th and 21st century, will enjoy reading this book.

Thanks to members of Support4HomeSchool for adding this book to my reading list….now if I can get to the other 50 or so books on the list. {G}