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The Little House Collection (Little House #1-9)
Little House in the Big Woods/Little House on the Prairie/Farmer Boy/On The Banks of Plum Creek/By the Shores of Silver Lake/The Long Winter/Little Town on the Prairie/These Happy Golden Years/The First Four Years (Little House Books)
Boxed Set, Box Set, 2700 pages
Published
October 7th 2003
by Avon Books
(first published 1953)
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Like so many people, I read and loved these books as a girl. When my son was an infant and I was looking for something to entertain me during his marathon bouts of nursing, I decided to read the series again. I still found it immensely enjoyable, but with one striking difference: When I was a child, Pa Ingalls seemed like the coolest dad on the planet - he played the fiddle, made his own bullets and took his family on all sorts of adventures all over the unsettled west. As an adult, however, I t...more
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OK, so I'm a little generous with the whole Little House series. Sue me. But for me, as a child, they WERE "amazing," and here's why.
When I was in first grade in a tiny, tiny town in Arkansas, and hating school with the heat of a thousand suns, each member of the class was given identical packages at Christmas time. They were books. I'd been reading for a long time already, so loved a new book...but disappointment set in as my classmates who got their books first opened them before I had a chanc...more
When I was in first grade in a tiny, tiny town in Arkansas, and hating school with the heat of a thousand suns, each member of the class was given identical packages at Christmas time. They were books. I'd been reading for a long time already, so loved a new book...but disappointment set in as my classmates who got their books first opened them before I had a chanc...more
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Okay, I'll admit it. I still re-read these. I just finished a ramble though the pioneer prairies with Laura and enjoyed it throughly.
I know there is an outcry about the treatment and representation of Native Americans in these books, not to mention women, African Americans, and children. But let's calm our politically correct minds for a moment and think about the treasure of literature these books are. Specifically, they are WONDERFUL for educating young people about how people of color, minor...more
I know there is an outcry about the treatment and representation of Native Americans in these books, not to mention women, African Americans, and children. But let's calm our politically correct minds for a moment and think about the treasure of literature these books are. Specifically, they are WONDERFUL for educating young people about how people of color, minor...more
I wanted to reread these before I read the Wendy McClure book. I read these over and over again when I was a kid, and even now, halfway through book 6, I still remember the illustrations peppered into the books. These books were lost in my parents' attic, and we weren't even positive that they hadn't been sold at a yard sale, but I finally found them last summer and jumped for joy. I've been using them as a sort of palate cleaner between my heavier fare.
As good as I remembered, and I'm shocked a...more
As good as I remembered, and I'm shocked a...more
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When I was a little girl, my father used to read me these books. It has been a really long time since then and I can hardly remember most of the stories from the book, but I still remember the sense of excitement and adventure in these books. Laura and her family were pioneers, and as a young girl she met each move with a sense of adventure and openness to the world. I also loved that the girl was called Laura like me.
These stories are a true test...more
When I was a little girl, my father used to read me these books. It has been a really long time since then and I can hardly remember most of the stories from the book, but I still remember the sense of excitement and adventure in these books. Laura and her family were pioneers, and as a young girl she met each move with a sense of adventure and openness to the world. I also loved that the girl was called Laura like me.
These stories are a true test...more
Oct 25, 2011
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I love each of these books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I am continuing to read related books by other authors as I am studying what characteristics made up the American Spirit during the great expansion when Americans were Homesteading and during the years following.
I was very impressed with the attitudes and character of each member of the Ingalls family and of Almanzo Wilder. They had a love of family and of God. They believed in being their best no matter what was happening in their liv...more
I was very impressed with the attitudes and character of each member of the Ingalls family and of Almanzo Wilder. They had a love of family and of God. They believed in being their best no matter what was happening in their liv...more
I've read all the books in this set may times over. I've also read other Wilder books, as well as those by her daughter, Rose. Love them all!
From Wikipedia:
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
Farmer Boy (1933) - about her husband's childhood on a farm in New York
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), a Newbery Honor book
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), a Newbery Honor book
The Long Winter (1940), a Newbery Honor book
Little Town on the Prairie (1941), a New...more
From Wikipedia:
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
Farmer Boy (1933) - about her husband's childhood on a farm in New York
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), a Newbery Honor book
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), a Newbery Honor book
The Long Winter (1940), a Newbery Honor book
Little Town on the Prairie (1941), a New...more
Dec 20, 2010
Mary
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Recommends it for:
Children & Adults from 8 to 80+
Recommended to Mary by:
Miss Brown - my fourth grade teacher - one of the best gifts she ever gave me.
The Little House Books were the first series of books I read as a young girl. It is a wonderful series for children and adults alike. It is very interesting to read what life was like in the 1880's in the early years of our country. It was interesting to read in my childhood, but even moreso today in a sense. I thought things were so advanced in the years I was a child - but children today have things that I didn't have and of course none of the things in our lifetimes were things that Laura and...more
I read these as a young girl and loved them. That's about all I remembered about them, though. So I decided to read them again, and I'm so glad I did!
Reasons I loved these books:
1. They are clean and wholesome.
2. They teach responsibility and hard work.
3. They teach about gratitude and being happy with what you have instead of looking elsewhere for happiness.
4. FAMILY is emphasized and taught to be an important part of society. Laura's family is warm, loving, and kind.
5. After reading about all...more
Reasons I loved these books:
1. They are clean and wholesome.
2. They teach responsibility and hard work.
3. They teach about gratitude and being happy with what you have instead of looking elsewhere for happiness.
4. FAMILY is emphasized and taught to be an important part of society. Laura's family is warm, loving, and kind.
5. After reading about all...more
I used to listen to these books as my mother read them. My mother got them as a child they kept their gifts in the attic inside their pillow case. My mother snuck up into the attic every night to read her books she had not received yet. She loved them and still reads them to her children to this day.
The books themselves are well put together have pencil drawing and explain a lot about the early american heading south. Laura is wonderful at describing the suroundings as she moves through the sta...more
The books themselves are well put together have pencil drawing and explain a lot about the early american heading south. Laura is wonderful at describing the suroundings as she moves through the sta...more
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These books were the best i ever read! LOVE THEM!!! they are awesome!
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I used to own these books, and I wonder (as I do with many other books that have disappeared from my shelves) what happened to them. They are delightful, almost timeless, which is ironic considering that they are about a time, and places, that are long gone. I would read them again and again, and I learned a great deal about all sorts of esoteric things - cheesemaking, Godey's Lady's Book, courting rituals, daily life in the unsettled West, subjects studied in schools (which we have long since n...more
This is the edition I had as a child, read so many times that the spines were all cracked and each volume fell open to my favorite chapter:
My copies are long gone; I haven't seen them in years and I assume they were given away or sold in a garage sale at some point in the fuzzy past. But I can't tell you how much just finding this picture has made me achingly nostalgic for these books I loved so much so long ago. I want to buy a new set and reread them, but it wouldn't be right to read any other...more
My copies are long gone; I haven't seen them in years and I assume they were given away or sold in a garage sale at some point in the fuzzy past. But I can't tell you how much just finding this picture has made me achingly nostalgic for these books I loved so much so long ago. I want to buy a new set and reread them, but it wouldn't be right to read any other...more
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I have, ever since I was 8 and received a box set of the "Little House" books, adored each and every single one of them. In over 20 years, my feelings towards these books haven't changed one iota. They are easy to read, and chock full of information about life as a young pioneer girl. How many times did I wish I could taste Ma's vanity cakes, or see Mary's college dress in person? These books are so fascinating, for anyone remotely interested in history, that it makes it impossible to put them d...more
My husband found this collection in a used book store and bought it for me as a Christmas gift. He knew how much I loved these books, and that I had this same collection as a child (my mom gave me this same set when I was 9 or 10). I tore through all of them at record speed, and loved them as much as ever. The day to day life of the Ingalls family, their struggles, and triumphs, brought me back to being a little girl in love with these books. The saddest part however, was, that aside from the fi...more
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These are my favorite books from my childhood and I pulled them out of our bin of books that we don't always have on our limited shelves and made Michael read them with me. He did not like them. I love everything about them, more and more as I get older. I still like the stories about butchering time and "helping" around the house, which eventually actually becomes helping around the house. I love, in the later books, when Laura thinks something that is obvious and common sense and not at all pa...more
I literally have read this entire set at least 10 times throughout my childhood. I love how Laura Ingalls Wilder made the simplest things sound wonderful: such as receiving a shiny new penny and peppermint stick for Christmas, singing around the fire while pa played the fiddle, the joy of a new dress - hand sewn out of fresh calico, and homemade biscuits. Her life was full of challenges and great hardship, yet her positive attitude permeates her narrative. I gained such an appreciation of our pi...more
These books taught me to fall in love with reading. Not only did these books teach me so much about life in general *such as how to make cheese from scratch* but they really just expanded my worldview as a child. I have a great sense of nostalgia when I think of this series. But more than that, I feel that Laura Ingalls Wilder had such a gift for storytelling. Her literary voice is just beautiful. The stories were humorous, and touching, and you always wanted things to turn out for the best for...more
So this isn't really the edition my fmily owned but I don't see that one listed here. I remember being 1st or 2nd grade when our teacher read us "Little House in the Big Woods" and loving it. I soon read one or two of the books on my own and in short time my mom and step dad invested in a box set of the complete set of paperbacks. One or two nights a week my brother and I and mom would sit and listen ad my step-father read a few chapters at a time aloud to us. I remember those as good times...on...more
Found this 8 book set at the flea market for $5....So far I've read 3 and I'm loving them so much...these stories remind me of a combination of my sister and I growing up with our father showing us how he and our mother did things on their ranches and also reminds me of my mother's stories of when she and her 5 sisters grew up on their ranch with their father and mother helping their father and mother do all the farm-work and housework...absolutely beautiful stories of how children where told to...more
Lyndsey, this a great series, I would recomend them to you but i don't know how.
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Love ths set. My mom bought it for me when I was a child, and now we are reading them to my 4 year old daughter who also loves them. I will say that the subsequent books in the series are not as engaging as the first novel, "Little House in the Big Woods" but they are still a great introduction to the time period. Also, you may have to explain a little about Native Americans, some of the books portray Native Americans in a poor light that does not explain what really happened. We've used this as...more
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My aunt loaned me this box set after I finished the Boxcar Children and I was searching for another series to read. I think what fascinated me most was the fact that this was a whole different world from the one I grew up in, and it was about pioneers making a new life in the wilderness. I remember how they got the wagon across a great wide river, how they had to clear trees for a cabin, how they had to tie a rope from the cabin to the barn to keep from getting lost in a snowstorm, and how their...more
I literally have read this entire set at least 10 times throughout my childhood. I love how Laura Ingalls Wilder made the simplest things sound wonderful: such as receiving a shiny new penny and peppermint stick for Christmas, singing around the fire while pa played the fiddle, the joy of a new dress - hand sewn out of fresh calico, and homemade biscuits. Her life was full of challenges and great hardship, yet her positive attitude permeates her narrative. I gained such an appreciation of our pi...more
I re-read the majority of these about 5, 6 summers ago. They are delightful, and I'll never forget the stories. I want to read them to my children (for my benefit and theirs!). I think that On the Banks of Plum Creek and Little House in the Big Woods are my favorites.
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Of course I'm obligated to like all these books since Laura is a relative.
Actually, I liked them all before I was related to her by marriage. How was I to know when I read Little House in the Big Woods that Uncle Peter and Aunt Eliza would one day be the great-great-great-grandparents of my children?
This is still one of the most informative and well-written chronicles on the era of westward expansion in the United States. I also have it on good authority that well-read people around the world ar...more
Actually, I liked them all before I was related to her by marriage. How was I to know when I read Little House in the Big Woods that Uncle Peter and Aunt Eliza would one day be the great-great-great-grandparents of my children?
This is still one of the most informative and well-written chronicles on the era of westward expansion in the United States. I also have it on good authority that well-read people around the world ar...more
May 01, 2013
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17 years ago, as a small child, I read this series and had major issues with the focus on homesteading. I just did not like the long explanations and wanted actual recipes not just the ingredient list. My favorite part was Laura and Almonzo's cute little love story.
I recently just finished the series again. I still do not understand how people moved west with nothing but their families, where things really that bad in cities? I also enjoyed and looked forward to Laura and Almonzo's love story ev...more
I recently just finished the series again. I still do not understand how people moved west with nothing but their families, where things really that bad in cities? I also enjoyed and looked forward to Laura and Almonzo's love story ev...more
I know my mom read these to me, but I don't know if I read them myself. If I did, I was really little. I'm enjoying the series. I like how she describes everything they did to make a life, how much their lives revolved around simply surviving. However, the little moral lessons I could do without ("children should be seen and not heard" etc). I think Laura passive aggressively describes Mary on a regular basis, making her seem really anal and unpleasant. And the way she describes herself is almos...more
Every child should read or be read these books. And not just girls...my boys loved these stories and there are lessons to be learned by all about gratitude, perserverance, work, sacrifice and love.
I LOVE this series and although I don't normally enjoy re-reading books, these I could read again and again. I sepecially liked Little House on the Praire, Little Town on the Prairie, The Long Winter, and These Happy Golden Years. I did not enjoy Farmer Boy Much and I really wish I wouldn't have read T...more
I LOVE this series and although I don't normally enjoy re-reading books, these I could read again and again. I sepecially liked Little House on the Praire, Little Town on the Prairie, The Long Winter, and These Happy Golden Years. I did not enjoy Farmer Boy Much and I really wish I wouldn't have read T...more
I read all these back in elementary school. They were wonderful at that age. Well written you could see what she was talking about and we all grew up with someone like Nellie! Was fascinating, historical without being boring and let kids/people know how hard it was in the "old days". Highly recommend for girls 9 to 13, or even if you want more background than the tv show ever gave you!
Years later I traveled thru North and South Dakota and was surprised there really is a Walnut Grove! and her for...more
Years later I traveled thru North and South Dakota and was surprised there really is a Walnut Grove! and her for...more
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Ingalls wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family. She also wrote a regular newspaper column and kept a diary as an adult moving from South Dakota to Missouri, the latter of which has been published as a book.
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