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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

Laura Ingalls Wilder,

Garth Williams (Illustrator)

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Feb 07, 2012 midnightfaerie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, childrens, rory-gilmore

Update: Just read these again and still love them. Decided I would read most of the series with my boys. I have twin 12 yr olds and a 14 yr old, all boys, and you would think they might not like it but they loved it. When we go on camping trips I've started a kind of tradition to read a chapter of something each night. We've read a lot of books together through the years and this is on the easier side, but I wanted them to enjoy a book I did as a kid. They were fascinated by how things were done ...more

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Jun 25, 2018 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: challenge-bingo-2018, read-classics, challenge-back-to-the-classics-2018

Oh, I loved this book! It was so beautifully written, and the wonderful illustrations by Garth Williams really brought it to life. It really should be required reading. In our recent technological age, we have lost the knowledge of how hard life was for all those that lived before us, and how each season brought its own set of toils and joys. Wilder described so much of pioneer life that I did not know. It was like reading a child's version of one of the books in the The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressi ...more

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