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Top 10 Pansy Books

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Since I was asked to share some of my favorite Pansy books, I thought I’d just give you a whole post about them.
It is impossible for me to pick a favorite book by my favorite author. (You should try to do it after reading 70+ books by one author!) So here are my top 10 12. Are you ready?
Just know that these are not listed in any order except how I think of them. 🙂 The titles all link to the kindle version of the book and most of them are $.99 so if you are wanting some really good, yet not expensive books to read on your kindle, try these.
Isabella Alden

1. Little Fishers and Their Nets   (audio)

 

2. The Browns at Mt. Hermon  (audio)

[One of Pansy’s few humorous books]

 

3. Four Girls at Chautauqua  (audio)

[This is the 1st in the Chautauqua series] You can get the kindle version of this for FREE!

 

4. The Chautauqua Girls at Home  (audio)

[This is the 2nd book in the Chautauqua series] You can get the kindle version of this for FREE!
Or you can get the first 3 Chautauqua books for $.99 here.

 

5. Ester Ried Yet Speaking  (audio)

[This is the 3rd book in the Chautauqua series] You can get the kindle version of this for FREE!
(This book ties the Chautauqua series and the Ester Ried series together.)

 

6. The King’s Daughter  (audio)

This is the 2nd of the Esther Ried books though you won’t see any connection until book 4.

 

7. Mag and Margaret  (audio)

 

8. Jessie Wells

 

9. Helen Lester

 

10. Chrissy’s Endeavor

 

11. Three People

You can get the kindle version of this for FREE!

 

12. Man of the House

Oh, dear! This is too hard! And I haven’t even mentioned

Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant

Twenty Minutes Late

Reuben’s Hindrances

New Graft on the Family Tree

And I really could go on and on and on. Can I just mention them all? Oh, and what about the Golden Text series? I can’t forget them!
As you can see, it is really difficult to pick just one or two or even six or ten favorite books! Isabella Alden has such a way of creating characters that you can relate to even if they “lived” one hundred years ago. I often find myself wondering how Pansy would have written a scene in some other book I’m reading, or recalling some of the lessons her characters learned when I’m writing my own books.

What books have influenced your writing the most?

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  1. Thanks for sharing! For me, it's hard to tell which authors have influenced my writing the most; but I know for certain that I admire Elizabeth Enright's gentle adventures and skill at describing a scene; C.S. Lewis's and G.K. Chesterton's wit and portrayal of Spiritual matters; J.M. Barrie's and A.A. Milne's humor (especially in how they do character development); and Elizabeth Prentiss's down-to-earth, realistic portrayals of exactly how people are and the hopes, dreams, and struggles that drive them. Louisa May Alcott also does an amazing job with characterization (particularly in "Eight Cousins" and "Rose in Bloom"), and one book I've read by Rosemary Sutcliff really inspired my love of the medieval genre (even if I would go about it differently than she would). (And I can't forget E.B. White, either!) If I have in any way absorbed these styles of writing that I admire into my own, I have no idea; but these are certainly the people that have helped to teach me. 😉

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