Little House in the Big Woods
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Little House in the Big Woods was the first book in the children's series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was published in 1933 and illustrated by Garth Williams, who also illustrated all of Wilder's books.
[edit] Plot
Laura Ingalls Wilder's story begins in 1871 as 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 sugar-off dance at her grandparents' house. Pa and Ma even take Mary and Laura on a trip to the town of Pepin, seven miles away from their house. Pa hunts for the family and sometimes brings home some meat for the family to eat, while Ma makes cheese, 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 just decided to 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, Little House in the Big Woods tells about what happened after the family's stay in Kansas in their return to Wisconsin. During the actual Little House on the Prairie time-frame, Carrie was not born yet and Laura was only two to three years old when her family lived in Kansas from 1869 to 1870.
[edit] Little House Books
- Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
- Farmer Boy (1933)
- Little House on the Prairie (1935)
- On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
- By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
- The Long Winter (1940)
- Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
- These Happy Golden Years (1943)
- The First Four Years (1968)
