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Little House in the Big Woods: Full Color Edition Paperback – May 11, 2004

by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author), Garth Williams (Illustrator)

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Book 1 of 9 in the Little House on the Prairie Series

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Immerse yourself in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House series, now featuring Garth Williams’ classic art in vibrant full-color!

Little House in the Big Woods, the first book in the Little House series, takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.

Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.

The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.

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For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover.

Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack.

Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her folks celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa's fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep.

And so begins Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.

About the Author

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story.

Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E. B. White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. He founded an art school near London and served with the British Red Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. Williams worked as a portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous career illustrating some of the best known children's books.

In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also illustrated George Selden’s The Cricket in Times Square and its sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). He created the character and pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban (HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). He collaborated with Margaret Wise Brown on her Little Golden Books titles Home for a Bunny and Little Fur Family, among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry collections published by Greenwillow: Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. He also wrote and illustrated seven books on his own, including Baby Farm Animals (Little Golden Books) and The Rabbits’ Wedding (HarperCollins).

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Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 930L (What's this?)
Series: Little House (Book 1)
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (May 11, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780060581800
ISBN-13: 978-0060581800
ASIN: 0060581808
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches
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- #1033 in Children's Classics
- #107 in Children's 1800s American Historical Fiction

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HobbyAddict

Amazing quality for the price

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017

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This book's text is exactly like the original. The quality is great. Pages are thick and glossy and the illustrations are bright and colored in. I recommend this book to every age!

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LeeAnn H.

Childhood Memories revisited

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2017

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I have read and reread these beloved books several times in my life. First time in the first grade, then again at different milestones throughout my teen and young adult years. It is this reading in my middle age, that I think has been my favorite. Winter has arrived in earnest, and their is a fire once again in the wood stove across the room from my favorite reading chair, in the old family farmhouse. It dawned on me that my love of these books has come full circle. It was a night just like this 43 years ago that I read " Little House in the Big Woods" for the first time, and I am so glad I did, because reading it again has truly made me feel that I am home again. I encourage any parent or guardian to give this same gift to any child in their lives who loves to read, or who needs encouraged to read. Who knows maybe they will need to feel the warmth and safety of childhood again at some future date like I did tonight.

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Phoenix K

I loved them all as a child

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2017

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This is the first in the Little House series, and what I find interesting about it is that it seems to be written from the perspective of a young child...her books "grow" with the reads. If reading as an adult, don't let the childlike writing discourage you from finishing the entire series. I loved them all as a child, and enjoy also reading them as an adult.

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C. Clarke

Generally a good book, but there are long stretches that my ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2018

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Generally a good book, but there are long stretches that my daughter (5yo) found boring, where it goes on and on about clothing or hair for example. Also, this was written a long time ago, so there are some parts I had to skip, like this: "The storekeeper said to Pa and Ma, 'That's a pretty little girl you've got there,' and he admired Mary's golden curls. Be he did not say anything about Laura, or about her curls. They were ugly and brown." There are also mild racial slurs.

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Audio CD is annoying

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2018

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The story is great,but the audio CD is not so good due to the annoying reader. She reads as though addressing toddlers, talking down to her audience, over emphasizing words, and generally sounding like a fool.

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Scott Mutchler

Stories of resourcefulness and resilience

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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Laura Ingalls Wilder used such vivid description in her stories that it is easy to imagine exactly what it was like for her during the year described in this story. My wife fondly recalled reading these stories in her childhood and I decided to get the books for her as a Christmas gift this past Christmas. We have taken turns reading the stories aloud to each other. We have greatly enjoyed the descriptions of how the Ingalls family was so resourceful, using what was available to make what they needed, such as straw hats after harvesting their wheat or oats. Back when my own great grand mother was alive, she would share how much she enjoyed watching the Little House series when it was on television, as it reminded her of her own childhood. We just finished the Big Woods book and have now moved on to Farmer Boy.

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IMommy

Misaligned Printing

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2018

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It is a great book as written by the author. The print is lacking.

I am not sure if this is just my copy or all the copies. However, it looks like they lined the printing up at the very top of the page, leaving a big gap at the bottom. Its a good read at a great price. It just looks like the quality control at the printers is not great. All the words are there. So, if you don't mind the unbalanced page visual, its fine. Whether I buy a book for $6 or $50, I just expect a good product... not perfect, but good.

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A gift from the big woods to my granddaughter

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017

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I bought this book for my granddaughter who is a third-grader and a bookworm. I read this in third or fourth grade, along with the others available, with my best friend. We still keep in contact and still love Laura Ingalls Wilder. I've read the series a few times as an adult and still love it.

This edition is a special collectible one, printed on good quality paper with color pictures and with a sturdy cover that is shiny and colorful. I hope that this book can compete with 21st century superheroes, iPhone technology, and glitzy kids' TV shows to bring enjoyment and wonder to one little girl about another girl who lived in a different century. Very pleased with this purchase.

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M. Dowden

A Wonderful Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2018

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Children should really enjoy this tale, which I think in the US is a set text, and the story is based on Laura’s own life and experiences. Although of course most of us are familiar with the TV series ‘Little House on the Prairie’ this story here takes us back to even earlier days, when the Ingalls family lived in Wisconsin, near Pepin.

We have here mum and dad, Laura, and her sister Mary, who all live in a log cabin in the woods, and are to an extent quite isolated, although as we read here, there are family visits, and they do go into town, as father helps out at harvest time.

Although not the best written book you will come across this has always been popular in America, and it is easy to see why. We have a tale of a little girl and thus what children get up to and we can see what the parents have to do, with looking after their animals and for the father, hunting. The seasons play a big part in what happens, as the family to a certain extent start to stay more indoors during the winter, and they have to contend more with wolves approaching their land.

With insights into what sort of chores had to be done, how people had to use what was around them and make do as well as they could, this reminds us of the pioneering spirit and how more people in this sort of period had to know and cope with things that nowadays we would call people in to do for us or go down the shops to buy. With regards to this latter point so this gives older readers an understanding of the period and social history. This book does include the great illustrations by Garth Williams.

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E. J. Carter-Dunn

Beautiful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2017

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This is technically a reread as I read the first 3 (Laura-based) books of this series as a child.

Just like in my childhood I fell straight in love with the story. It is very simplistic to me now, but it is a superb world-building/setting describing book. The descriptions are rich and detailed so you can really imagine what it was like at that time; the weather, where they lived, the food they ate and the big store.

My children will definitely be reading these!

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K. Gross

Many of the classic illustrations are missing from this edition.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2015

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This book is a great classic of children's literature, but this edition is missing some of the pictures that I vividly remember from the edition I had as a child, which is such a shame. This is the first chapter book I ever read all the way through on my own. I read it at age 6, and without the engaging pictures I might have been too intimidated to try reading it. They really helped keep me plugging away at it, and when I reached the end (very quickly!) a bookworm was born. This edition might not charm today's emerging readers in the same way. There is no picture of playing with the pig's bladder balloon, no picture of Laura cradling her Christmas doll, no picture of Laura's aunts dressing up for the dance. Many of the small margin illustrations of objects and tools that were used in pioneer life are also missing. This is not advertised as an abridged edition so I am disappointed to find that so many of the original illustrations, which are all delightful, have been left out.

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PatB

Life is for living now - for real and not virtually.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2015

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Just replacing yet another copy of the first in the series as yet another grandchild borrows the first in the series and doesn't want to pass it on. It's a very good introduction to the beginning of modern America with the industriousness and ingenuity of the people who went West and helped each other survive adversity and prosper, without the excesses of the twentieth century material success and self-involvement. We can't have enough books that show how life can be enjoyed despite hardships and sorrow, and without excessive amounts of entertainment and material possessions. It's easy for my generation, growing up in the fifties and sixties, to remember simple neighbourliness, working hard, making do and having fun, but it's a shock and incomprehensible for a lot of young people today.

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Z. Toft

A lovely recording but treat yourself to some more fiddle music!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2010

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Recently I was thrilled to be able to read Little House in the Big Woods to my 5 year old daughter as it was one of my favourite books as a child. To my great delight she was as inspired and enthusiastic about it as I was (and still am!). As we read the book together there were lots of new words for my daughter - some new because of the American setting, some new because of the historical setting - and because of this, combined with the fact that she clearly loved the story and wanted to listen to it again straight away, we treated ourselves to the audiobook version of Little House in the Big Woods.

To my surprise there seems to be only version of Little House in the Big Woods available. It is an unabridged recording, comprising 4 CDs, read by Cherry Jones, an American actress who was in Erin Brockovich among other films and also starred in the TV series 24. Cherry Jones reads the novel with great conviction and her American accent certainly helped set the scene for us as we listened along.

Occasionally she is accompanied by Paul Woodiel on the violin, playing short excerpts of the fiddle music that appears throughout the novel, as played by Pa, the head of the family. What there is of the fiddle music is wonderful - adding another layer of authenticity to the story, but time and time again I felt that the producers of this audiobook had missed a trick by not letting the fiddle music really shine. For example, when there is a jig competition between two family members the dancing and the music are vividly described in the book and yet there is no music at all at this point in the CD. I don't think this bothered my daughter at all, but I'm sure these CDs are listened to by almost as many adults as children, and for us a bit more wonderful music would not have gone amiss!

I wondered if my daughter might be surprised by the American accent, especially as some words are pronounced so differently as to be somewhat confusing (eg "herbs"), but she didn't bat an eyelid! One aspect of the recording she particularly liked was that on the CDs each chapter of the book is given its own, single track (rather than multiple, shorter tracks), making it very easy for her to locate the point in the book she wanted to listen to again.

All in all, even though I personally would have enjoyed more fiddle music, this audiobook was a good buy, a lovely book to listen to.

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Sandy

What a super book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2017

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So nice to read a book with no malice it's a family in the country so near to the Wild but things done for reasons not greed how much one can learn from this story loved the explanations of the Wild life around the cabin the flora a super. Ok to get away from greeds of today

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Lanny 32

Great performance & really brings the book to life!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2017

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Great performace & I, not an american, get to listen, for the first time, to the tunes that Pa plays on his fiddle! Love the entire series of these books' audio performed by Cherry Jones! This one & By The Shores of Silver Lake are my favourites. Really brings the books to life in a whole new way! Thanks!

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Jean Genie

Horrible version of a wonderful classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2019

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I bought the hard cover version of this thinking it would be something like the hard cover version I had as a child. Sadly it is not. All pictures have been stripped from the book, so it is text only. The book is also small, paperback size. What a shame. Returned.

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Andy Boyle

A real eye-opener

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2011

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I remember watching the Little House On The Prairie on TV when I was a kid, and hating it, so I approached the books with a bit of a negative preconception. My six year old daughter was adamant, though: this was to be her bed-time story for the next however long it would take to read.
By the time I'd read the first couple of chapters, I was hooked and my wife had to make me stop reading so daughter could go to bed. The adventures and adversities of the Ingalls family are truly engrossing reading. The self reliance and courage of the folk in the book was inspiring, and the sense of community and the respect folk had towards one another made me think that perhaps these people knew things that we, as a society, have forgotten.
Don't think I'll try head cheese, all the same...

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A Comforting Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2019

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I have never read a 'Little House' book and didn't watch the TV series but it's just what I expected. A nice easy read, good and old fashioned. I can imagine that fairly youg children would enjoy this being read to them.

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Matthew Leban

Great present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2017

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Bought this as a present for my mum as she loves little house on the prairie she said it's a great book

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K. McBride

Still my favourite

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2017

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One of my earliest memories is the first time I discovered this series in the school library. It's still as wonderful now with its descriptions of pioneer ways during the life time of Mrs Ingles-Wilder, her community, friends and family. A highly recommended read for all ages.

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Mark Wilde

Not the sickly sweet horrible TV show

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2019

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An insight into the past, and the skills it took to keep a family alive. Extremely interesting, and engaging read even for adults.
It's taken me nearly 50 years to read this, due to the holier-than-though preaching and smugness of the TV show. I'm glad the book was recommended to me by a friend.

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A glimpse into another world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2016

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It's such a pleasure to read this account of a childhood long ago. The child's viewpoint gives such a clear picture of the hardships of life then as well as the love and warmth in the Little House.

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Fantastic book

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Recommended to any fan of the show. Gives a real insight into the life and times of Laura ingalls wilder. Great for adults and kids alike.

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