“Stop crying, Laura….Don’t be so greedy.”“Then he took down a strap from the wall, and he whipped Laura with the strap.”Little House in the Big Woods has not aged well. First, the book has graphic depictions of hunting and preparing carcasses. Reading this aloud was very uncomfortable especially for a pescatarian. Second, the parents in Little House in the Big Woods were too harsh. My parenting philosophy can be described as, "Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!" Thanks, Ms. Frizzle! Con...

So I'm currently working my way through the Little House series. I read a few of these as a child and watched a little of the TV Show. There has been quite a bit of controversy surrounding these books as the award (Laura Ingalls Wilder Award) was removed by the ALA and changed to the Children's Literature Legacy Award. For my own personal reasons, I wanted to go back and read this series as an adult and truly understand the intricacy of the controversy surrounding it. For that reason, I will be ...

What a lovely Classic! I would absolutely fallen in love with this book if I had read it as a child.🥰The illustrations (colorized on ebooks) by Garth Williams are gorgeous.This is the first book in the "Little House" series. It's 1870s in Big Woods of Wisconsin, a little girl named Laura lives in a little gray log house with her Pa, Ma, her sister Mary and baby sister Carrie. They have Jack a brindle bulldog and Black Susan the cat. What a joy to read about their day-to-day life!"...the Big Woo...

I grew up with the Little House on the Prairie tv series, but I didn't read any of the actual books until my son was about seven. We read all nine books together, and before we knew what was happening, I was wearing a bonnet and we'd traveled to all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder historic sites in South Dakota, Minnesota and Missouri. (I can only bless my son for his patience and grace that hot summer day as he stood politely over by a tree while I had an animated conversation and shared some hot t...

Another classic read with the kids!I think as we get more into an era where kids don’t know a time without computers and easily accessible technology, books like Little House in the Big Woods will start to appeal less to the young crowd. Listening to stories of pioneer life is so far removed from what they know it is at times incomprehensible. At least when I was a kid we were not all that far removed from a simpler and less wired lifestyle. I do think my kids enjoyed the time we took to read th...

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a story that tells of Laura’s early childhood and upbringing in Wisconsin during the 1870s. Readers learn how her family had to live and survive in a little log cabin during pioneer times. In some ways life seems much simpler during this time period, but the hard work that was necessary to survive had to be arduous. Either you grew a garden and hunted or you didn’t eat. You chopped wood or didn’t have heat for the hard, frosty winters. The...

You don't need magic to make a series magical.Four-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilder lives with her Ma, Pa and sisters, Mary & Carrie, in a little house in the big woods of Wisconsin in 1871.We follow a year in the life of Laura - from celebrating Christmas to the fall harvest. The Ingalls family is always bustling about and preparing for the next season. There very survival depends on their cooperation. In the winter, we watch them make maple sugar, in spring they plant the garden, the summer t...

My two younger daughters recently discovered the Little House series and are speeding through the books this summer. As I am in between books and wanted to avoid a reading rut, I decided to revisit the first book in the series for myself. As I am always on the lookout for quality children's books, I spent a few hours rereading the beginning of a series that I had enjoyed when I was my daughters' age. Little House in the Big Woods begins the classic children's saga that follows Laura Ingalls Wild...

The Little House on the Prairie books bring back so many good memories. I have been looking for my box of old books for awhile now but still haven't found it. I'm really hoping it didn't get lost when I moved last year. There are so many books that I would love to re-read. I'm not sure why I didn't read these to my daughter. I think she had so many books that we just never got around to it. Little House in the Big Woods is the first book of the series and will always be my favorite, but I did en...

I started rereading this series because of John Scieszka's bizarre hatred of Little House on the Prairie. In attempting the perfectly noble task of getting young boys to read more, Scieszka has continuously heaped scorn on that book, banishing it to the girl ghetto of the Sweet Valley High and American Girls series. Putting aside the unfair comparison to syndicate titles published for purely commercial reasons, his assesment of Little House as a book purely for girls is infuriating.For one thing...