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Inside the little house in the big woods live the Ingalls family: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie. Outside the little house are the wild animals: the bears and the bees. the deer and the wolves. This is the classic tale of how they live in harmony mostly, but sometimes in fear...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Her family moved around, travelling from Missouri to Kansas, Minnesota and back to Wisconsin. Laura's formal education was irregular due to her family often living in isolated areas. Eventually the family settled in De Smet, Dakota Territory and Laura worked regularly as a seamstress and teacher. She stopped working when she married Almanzo Wilder in 1885. Her daughter was the novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane. Little House in the Big Woods was first published in 1932 and Little House on the Prairie in 1935, and five more books in the Little House series followed. Laura also wrote Farmer Boy about her husband's childhood, and three more books were published posthumously. Laura was celebrated during her lifetime and her books considered great literature. She was five times the recipient of the Newbery Honor Award for her distinguished contribution to American literature for children: On the Banks of Plum Creek (1938), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1940), The Long Winter (1941), Little Town on the Prairie (1942), These Happy Golden Years (1944).
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Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. Read the first page
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Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. Read the first page
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book as a child thirty years ago (now that's a frightening thing to see in print) and loved it. My daughter, aged 10, has now fallen in love with it.
It is a magical recreation of a simpler life in a very different time and today's children wonder at how people could survive in a world of bears and cougars and snow as high as the roof of the house with no central heating, television or gameboy !
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Life is hard living on the frontier of Wisconsin in the 1870's. Laura is only a little girl, but she still needs to help with chorus around her family's log cabin. There are wild animals in the woods, and they must provide for themselves since the nearest town in hours away. But it's not all hard work. If Pa's not tired, he might entertain his daughters with a story or by playing his fiddle. With family relatively nearby to visit, life is certainly never dull.
I had not read these books since I was a child until picking this up to reread. I had forgotten how entertaining they really are. There is no real plot, just a collection of stories covering a year in the life of the Ingalls family. This makes sense since they really are an autobiographical work. Still, the simple charm of the stories sucked me right in and I had a hard time putting the book down. There is plenty of detail here to give anyone a good picture of daily life during this time. And I must mention the illustrations by Garth Williams that greatly add to the book.
There's a reason these books are so well loved 70 years after they were written. They are an entertaining look at everyday life in a different time and place. This is a book to treasure.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
little house in the big woods is a journey to a different world, where life is simple and the world consists of four strong walls keeping little laura and her family safe from harm. the book's descriptions of food leaves you hungry, with its memories of cheese making, hickory smoked venison and home made butter. seeing the world through laura's excited eyes makes you want to cuddle up with a cup of warm cocoa, preferably with a snow storm outside. it is home comfort all the way through.
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A real eye-opener
I remember watching the Little House On The Prairie on TV when I was a kid, and hating it, so I approached the books with a bit of a negative preconception. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Andy Boyle
A wonderful book
> A classic book, I've really loved reading this to my children and sharing some of my own growing up with them. Read more
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Wholesome and forever maple candy
This is my absolute favourite of the series. (Not in the least as sacharin as the US TV series would have you believe)
Wholesome is a good description, in its best sense of... Read more
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Published 8 months ago by A. Woodfin
An old friend
This is a beautiful edition of an old favourite. It has the original line illustrations and is pleasure to see. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Acton Bell
Teaching the young
Years ago as an adult I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and thoroughly enjoyed the books. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Grandma
very good
The children have thoroughly enjoyed this simple story and now we've finished it I've order the next book in the series. Very informative of life on the frontier.
Published 12 months ago by Lisa
A love for these books will never fade
I have loved these books since the first time I ever read them: I don't even remember when that was, it seems so ingrained in my childhood. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Emily Lawrenson
A great introduction!
I have loved all the Little House books since I was small and recently bought my eight year old daughter this as an introduction to the series. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Charlie-Mow
A lovely recording but treat yourself to some more fiddle music!
Recently I was thrilled to be able to read Little House in the Big Woods to my 5 year old daughter as it was one of my favourite books as a child. Read more
Published on 9 May 2010 by Z. Jansen-Toft
little big house
Excellent! I have already reviewed the four books by Laura Ingalls Wilder I recently purchased so I will not be completing any further reviews on these books
Published on 29 Jan 2010 by Mrs. Marion Marshall
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