![]() ![]() I'll tell you what I like about that opening sentence it's the big B and the big W in Big Woods. I must have been six or seven years old when I read it first and lord knows how many times I've gone back to it since then. The first instalment of a long series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is set just before the Ingalls family pushed further west to the prairie of television fame. There reside all my favourite, most read volumes. Oh y'know just those few words are enough to bring on nostalgia and send me rushing upstairs for the thirty-year-old, dog-eared Puffin copy of Little House in the Big Woods which still has pride of place on my bedroom bookshelf. ![]() Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little grey house made of logs. ![]() Easy to read aloud, you could begin with stories at bedtime and end in a Year 6 cross-discipline project if you were educating your children at home. There's history, there's a strong moral code and there's some fabulously sensuous descriptive writing. Summary: Little House In The Big Woods is the first in the famous series of pioneer books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. ![]()
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