Little House in the Big Woods
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| Little House in the Big Woods | |
 Little House in the Big Woods book cover, illustrated by Garth Williams |
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| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Little House |
| Genre(s) | Family Saga Western |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, Later, Scholastic |
| Publication date | 1932 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Followed by | Farmer Boy |
Little House in the Big Woods is a children's book by Laura Ingalls Wilder and was published in 1933. This book is the first of the series of books known as the Little House series.
The Little House series (also known as "Laura Years") is based on decades-old memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder's early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the late 19th century.
[edit] Story
Laura Ingalls’s story begins in 1871 when she was a four-year old girl living with her older sister Mary, baby sister Carrie, her Pa, and her Ma. In the course of this story, Laura celebrates Christmas with her family and her aunt Eliza and uncle Peter and three cousins Alice, Peter, and Ella. Laura and her family go to a sugaring-off dance at her grandparents’ house. Pa and Ma take Mary and Laura on a trip to the town of Pepin, seven miles away from their house. Pa hunts game and brings home meat for the family to eat, while Ma makes cheese, maple sugar, hats, and clothes. At night, Pa plays the fiddle for Laura and Mary to send them off to sleep.
After the success of this book and Farmer Boy, Laura did not wish to exclude the Ingalls family’s stay in Kansas. Since Carrie had already been born in Little House in the Big Woods, Laura decided to just include Carrie on the trip to Kansas in her next book, Little House on the Prairie and make herself six to seven years old in that book. In actuality, the events in Little House in the Big Woods happened after the family’s stay in Kansas on their return to Wisconsin. Laura was only two to three years old when her family lived in Kansas from 1869 to 1870.
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