Elsie's Holidays at Roselands (The Original Elsie Dinsmore Collection)

While I really like this story, there are some strong and central Christian doctrinal points of view with which I disagree. However, I didn't let that spoil the story for me. God judges the heart, and Elsie is true to what she believes with all her heart, even when it causes her great heartache and loss. It's really the stand of a martyr, though the loss she suffers turns go gain and great joy, that carries through the whole series in her relationship with her father--and changes him. A beautiful story.

Precious writings of another time in which days were simple, but thoughts and conscious were not. I have loved this series since i was a little girl!

I love the original Elsie books and Hendrickson Publishers did a great job of taking the Hibbard publicationand enlarging the books making them easier to read. They also did a great job on the covers. They shipped quickly too.

Well done and still relevant.

We thoroughly enjoy this book and the whole series. It was hard to put down and yet my daughter was really able to understand the story and relate to the characters.

Great set of book from the 1800, with a Christian theme.

I am11,I have two little brothers that love it. I want to be like Elise,but I knew I need to be like God, Elise is just a guide to God.Still this book is great for kids.I have a cousin who is mean to me a lot,she yells at me sometimes she will hit me,I was really mad and afraid of her,but Elise helped me forgive her. You should read or listen to to this book,just because it gave you the wrong order doesn't mean you tell people not to read it.Elise cries because she has hardships in her life,tear can help calm you down.I cry when I am sad or mad.I think this book is fine,for any one.God is are target,Elise helps you aim for God.

This book gave me a guilt complex. I would cry because I wasn't like Elsie, not because I wasn't like Jesus. Elsie breeds guilt. I am about to sell these books and I looked up on Amazon to see what they are worth and felt the need to leave a review because I honestly think these books are dangerous for Christian girls. The first book seemed charming and "old fashioned" but in this second one it turned into legalistic, guilt-breeding and puritanical. This is coming from a 24 year old former home schooled, church elder's daughter who likes Christian themes in books but this is not Christian, it is a self-enforced moral framework that is extra biblical and dangerous.

I have to say right now that this book might not be to everyone's taste; but for me it was a very moving and meaningful book. It is the second book about Elsie Dinsmore; now almost nine years old, an heiress, whose own mother had died but who loved her black nanny, Chloe, who was largely responsible for bringing her up. She lived with relations on a plantation in one of the southern states of the U.S.A. , and at the time of this book the Civil War is still some way ahead in the future. Her father had been away for many years, but in the first book (Elsie Dinsmore) we read how he had returned to bring up Elsie himself. He was very strict, but Elsie loved him and wanted to please him - but there was an even greater love in Elsie's life - greater than her love for her father, or for "mammy" Chloe - She loved the Lord Jesus and wanted to follow Him. Things are going well at the start of this book and Elsie's father is beginning to appreciate and love Elsie - but there comes a day when Elsie is faced with a terrible dilemma. Will she do her father's bidding, even though it is contrary to what she believes Jesus wants her to do? She makes her choice - a choice that causes her father to reject her. The distress caused by the whole matter almost causes Elsie's death - and when Elsie's father hears how things really are he rushes home. But will he be in time to put things right?A very moving and meaningful book; in some ways typical of the period when it was written - in the mid nineteenth century - but certainly none the worse for that; and perhaps ahead of its time in the positive way it treats black people. For Elsie loves and cares about people of both the black and the white races.