Angie Kathleen L. (stories2tell) reviewed on 9/29/2011 + 47 more book reviews

This is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young girl raised in back-woods poverty by a bitter mother who never recovered from watching her husband drown in a swamp. It is a wonderful and amazingly sweet story that includes drama, conflict and romance. It was written before editors had the clout to demand increasingy edgy writing over simple, honest storytelling. I hope this classic never goes out of print; and am sad that it is apparently being removed from many libraries. While I had previously enjoyed Stratton-Porter's book, "Laddie", (which is a prequel to Girl of the Limberlost) I only recently read this book because of the recommendation of my teenage granddaughter. Once I finished the book, I felt deprived to have missed it in younger years. I hope this book will find a resurgance of it's origional best-seller popluarity with a new generation of readers seeking sincerity over sensalationism.

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