Little House in the Big Woods (Little House)

256 pages

English language

Published May 11, 2004 by HarperTrophy.

ISBN:
978-0-06-058180-0
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OCLC Number:
55120744

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4 stars (75 reviews)

The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical activities on a farm in that era will captivate the imaginations of young and old alike. This series also contains the titles Little House on the Prairie, On The Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Farmer Boy, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years. They inspired the popular, 1970s television series Little House on the Prairie.

58 editions

Bookshelf Read: Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

4 stars

Both "Prairie Fires" and "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" gave me a much less rosy history of this era and ripped away many of the warm feelings of nostalgia I had for the Little House books, which I read over and over again as a child. So I was apprehensive about rereading this series.

This first book starts with the family before they started moving west, in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. It's a simple story, with long descriptions throughout of all the domestic homesteader farm tasks the family had to accomplish throughout the year, the planting, the harvesting, the hunting, the preserving, the cooking, but also includes joyful visits with family and the adventure of going into town. It goes along at a good clip and is never boring. I can totally understand why l loved it so much.

reviewed Little House in by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper & Brothers))

Review of 'Little House in' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

We have now left the Big Woods of Wisconsin and are in Indian Territory - gasp! Funny to see the opinions of the early 1930s. We go West, poor Jack has a scare, and we build a log cabin. Totally jealous. I think I would have made a fantastic pioneer man. Not a woman, because I would not want to do my laundry in a bucket, nor make corn mush all day, every day. But I would hang with Mr. Edwards and live off the land.

Once again, 3 stars. I like them progressively better as Laura ages.

Side note...Carrie is like a ghost child. She is mentioned so seldom I am surprised when her name is brought up. Poor Carrie!

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