Sugar Snow (My First Little House Books Series) Book

I liked the pattern in the inside cover, it resembles a picnic blanket, and I think it fits the time period of the book.
The illustrations were cute, with the bird on the tree, singing.
Like the last book I read in this series, Winter Days in the Big Woods, the dog doesn't look like a real dog at all.
It was word-for-word how the other one was: 'Laura lived in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her big sister Mary, her baby sister Carrie, and their good old bulldog Jack.'

Carrie's hair made her look like a boy. It wasn't the right hairstyle for a kid of that age.

The page where Laura is looking out the window, and the ground and roof is covered in snow, with the evergreen trees near the house was pretty.
Spring was on the way, and the icicles were melting off the house. They speared into the ground.
To get warm, Ma told her to snuggle against Mary. I don't know how in the world people kept warm back then with no heating. My room feels frigid during the winter when the heat isn't on.

There was suddenly a cat in here, and I didn't know they had a pet cat, and it wasn't in the last book, if I remember correctly.

Laura had wanted to go play outside, but the next day there was more snow on the ground. Pa comes in saying the soft snow is a sugar snow.
The last snow here at my house was so soft, I forgot snow could be like that, because it's always hard and icy here. But this was a powdery, soft snow, so I knew exactly what kind of snow is described in the book.

It looked a little funny when Laura tasted a snowflake off Pa's sleeve.
Their table clotch was blue with paw prints on it, and I don't think they had tablecloths like that back then.

When Pa said he was going to Grandpas, I was surprised that they lived near them.
Their grandpa made buckets when it was warm out and put them by the trees, to collect sap.
When the buckets were full, he boiled the sap in an iron kettle until it turned into maple syrup. Then he cooled some of the syrup into cakes of hard, brown maple sugar. I was glad that this was explained, because when Pa gave them the maple sugar cakes, I was confused as to how maple sugar could be made into cakes.
It's called sugar snow because snow at that time of the year helped the trees make more sap for syrup. Beforehand, I wouldn't have guessed that sugar snow had anything to do with tree sap.

'Then it was time for bed. By the time Laura and Mary had washed their sticky fingers and were snug in their beds, Pa and his fiddle were both singing them off to sleep.'
The ending just sounds abrupt. You turn the page, and BAM, it's over. It would be nice if it wrapped up a little better, and didn't have such a sudden ending. It's actually a little jarring to read, to go from them talking about sugar snow to it being bed time and they washed up, and got in bed, and Pa played his fiddle until they went to bed.
This was okay.