Kirstens Promise Book

History, a great story and an authentic historical craft! Not only that, but just the right size for girl-sized hands. A+++++++ Cannot be beat!

This is another in the American Girls Short Stories series about Kirsten Larson, a nine-year-old girl from Sweden, whose family has moved to frontier Minnesota of 1854. In this book, Kirsten finds a young boy living amongst the debris of an overturned wagon. The boy forces Kirsten to promise to not tell anyone about him, but with winter coming on, Kirsten is torn between wanting to help the boy and wanting to be the sort of person who keeps her word.The final chapter of this book is very nice; telling of wagon trains in 1854, and has direction for making flower crown (which I always thought was called a daisy chain). This is a very nice story, with Renee Graef's usual excellent illustrations. My twelve-year-old daughter and I are both long running fans of the Kirsten stories, and we both enjoyed this book.