This series is a treasure to share with your littles.

Picking books that I loved as a child is one of the best things that I have done for classroom read alouds!

We found this along with a few others in the series at our library and my girls love them- nice big illustrations and not too wordy that a toddler can't follow along.

I thought I was going to have to wait a few more years to introduce the classic Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series to my 3-year-old. Then at an event at the library a few weeks ago he got to pick out a free book. The one he chose was called A Deer in the Wood, part of the My First Little House picture books. It was a perfect, sweet picture book version of one vignette from Little House in the Big Woods. My son was immediately enraptured and saw on the back of the book that there were many others available in the series. He said, "Next time we go to the library, let's look for these ones," pointing to the images of the other books' covers. And so we did. We've so far checked out two others, and this one, Summertime in the Big Woods is my favorite of the bunch. They all are great, though, and perfectly emulate the appeal of the original books (even with illustrations in the style of Garth Williams) while reaching a younger audience. I can tell that by the time my kid is ready for chapter-book read alouds at bedtime, he will be totally primed for the Little House series.

Notes:
All the books in this series are beautiful.
Great intro to pioneer life, but may not connect to preschoolers with no frame of reference.
Son read them after he first learned to read.
Excerpted from Wilder's actual books.

a picture resource of the little house on the prairie one small chapter

My older daughter is about ready to have Little House in the Big Woods read to her, but for now she is enjoying these picture book adaptations with her little sister. We just read this one again on the first day of summer.

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I have really enjoyed reading these "First Little House books" and reading them outloud to my 2 year old granddaughter. Was happy to find them and excited that we wouldn't have to wait until she was 'older' to expose her to the Ingallas families. Same thing for my teenage special needs son. He loves them just as much as my granddaughter. Simple but yet good. The illustrations are GREAT! And very similar to the illustrations in the novels so that is a nice thing as well.

Before I read the full length Little House books, I read these Little House picture books. I absolutely love these books. The illustrations are great and the story follows along with the real books. In this book a typical summertime day with the Ingalls is described.

It was summertime and Laura and Mary were helping their mom in the garden and played outside while dad tended to the farm and animals. They also helped feed the animals and gathered eggs. When they weren't helping, they played and played.

Dreamy woodsy illustrations! Very "lets go to a cabin" meets summer evenings meets churning butter.