- Juvenile fiction, Ficción juvenil, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction
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.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- First published
- November 29, 2005
- Pages
- 228
- Publisher
- Mammoth, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Bound to Stay Bound Books
- Editions
- 120
- Language
- French, Spanish, dan, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781850899136
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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.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novels (1932 to 1943) based on her childhood in a settler family, which were the basis for the television series 'Little House on the Prairie' during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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