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Little House in the Big Woods

Book 1 of Little House on the Prairie

  • 228 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1932
  • 120 editions

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1 About this book

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.

  • Family life
  • Domestic fiction
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Children's fiction
  • Children's stories
  • Farm life
  • Childhood and youth
  • Geography

2 About Laura Ingalls Wilder

1867–1957

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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