“And we will live here,” said Omakayas, “won’t we? For a long time to come?” As the beginning of the series is somewhat slow, I would recommend reading at least the first book aloud, but after that, the books are suitable for a child to either read independently or aloud with their family or in a class setting. As a result, the books would be appropriate to read within the span of a year or two, depending on the degree of the reader’s interest. We will also include discussion questions for the entire series in the second post.Īll five books in the series are recommended for readers ages 8-12, and unlike many other children’s book series, there aren’t significant changes in the level of reading difficulty as the series progresses. In these posts, our plan is to write about the series as a whole and to discuss themes that occur across all five books, although we will focus slightly more on the first three books in this post and then on the later books in the second. The first three books follow Omakayas throughout her childhood, while the latter two are set later and written from the perspective of her twin sons, although Omakayas still features prominently. The Birchbark House books center around a young girl named Omakayas (whose name is an Ojibwe word meaning “little frog”), and her family’s experiences in the 1840s and 1850s living near what is now known as Lake Superior. Both this post and another in the upcoming months will be dedicated to contemporary author Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House series.
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