Little House in the Big Woods
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Little House in the Big Woods" is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932. It was Wilder's first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s. Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Association named the novel one of its ""Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children"". In 2012, it was ranked number 19 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal – the first of three Little House books in the Top 100.
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Author
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pages
160
Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Published Date
2020-04-21
ISBN
1479417556 9781479417551
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"The books were certainly cute and included characters I can relate to, but it should be supplemented with material discussing Native American peoples at the time, as I feel like this book puts a bit of spin on history. "
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Maddie Matew
"Read this entire series when I was very young and loved them all"
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Rebekah Travis
"I read these books when I was little, and enjoyed them. I even had my mother make me a "old-fashioned" dress and pretended to be a pioneer girl. Reading this as an adult, I was having a moment where I was being transported to a happier, more simple time...until I saw "rye n Injun bread" and the song about Uncle Ned going "where the good darkies go". I'm aware of the time when this book was published and can identify that at the time, that language was permissible, and potentially not offensive. But now, in this current social climate, I'm like WTF? And I'm feeling sorry for the child that I was, who read this and didn't know that it was an insult to my ancestors."
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