4830. When I Was A Child Based on a true story of love, death, and survival on the Kansas prairie, by T. L. Needham (read 6 Jun 2011) This is in the nature of a family history, telling in frank detail of the author's mother and uncle and the very difficult life they had in Kansas in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as how World War Ii affected the author's uncle. It is not edited as carefully as it should have been, but the account is still full of interest. Some of the account of farm life in Ellis County, Kansas, at times reminded me of my youth on an Iowa farm, though our life was not as dire nor as tragedy-ridden. .It is an uneven book but there are dramatic events told with clarity.… (meer)
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