Having Cherry Jones read this book to me just adds to the charm of this series that I have loved since i was a girl. Highly recommended!

This year I'm planning to read some of the books I enjoyed as a girl, especially those I know contributed to my lifelong love of reading. I decided to look back to one of my very favorite series, which started with Little House in the Big Woods. This series begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives with her Pa, her Ma, and her sisters Mary and Carrie. This story is told from four-year-old Laura's view and describes pioneer life. In between their chores and catching enough food to tide them over through the winter, Laura tells us wonderful stories of a family Christmas and the sound of Pa's fiddle singing them to sleep at night.

While I enjoyed Little House in the Big Woods, the stories that come later were even more fun to read. I don't know too many adults of my generation who didn't love to read these books and I hope that young children today get an opportunity to read these simple stories of life on the American prairie following the Civil War. I definitely think Laura Ingalls Wilder belongs in the company of other great American authors. I highly recommend reading the versions with the Garth Williams illustrations, which beautifully enhance the story.

If you read this book for the first time as an adult, without ever reading it as a child, you might miss the magic of story. It was a wonderful, nostalgic read and I enjoyed it very much.

This might be my favorite book of all time. It's certainly one of the first I remember reading as a child, and it's always been an enormous source of comfort. I tried to find the other edition I have (I've got the first edition minus its dust jacket, along with the paperback set of the series), but no luck on here unfortunately. I treasure all of my books, and the Little House/Rocky Ridge series(es) in particular, but this may be the best of them. This is the one where I find myself quoting as I read, because lines have stuck with me for the last twenty-ish years. I read it in one sitting today and was so pleased to find it's lost none of its magic.

Now I'm off to eBay to track down Laura's actual autobiography and plan a trip to Missouri and South Dakota. :D

I've read this book so many times that I've lost count! Every time I am charmed all over again by the stories of wilderness survival told from the perspective of a little girl. The beauty of this novel and the others in the series is the simplicity of life that is described. Gather food, build a home, work hard and have a little fun on the side- this is all they required back in the day. In this entertainment age, it's so refreshing to be transported back to a time when things were so much simpler and slower.

My favorite character has always been Charles Ingalls, or Pa, as he is referred to in the books. He's boisterous and jolly. He's steady and strong, hearty and dependable. I have always been drawn to him because he's a musician, and of course, I'm a musician as well. I was also fascinated by him because my Dad's name is Charles too, so as a child that was a big deal to me, that moment of recognition of a father figure from my real life carried over to a book.

I have always felt a kinship with Laura. She is so feisty and determined. She's loud and energetic, and those are all qualities of my personality too. I sometimes get frustrated with perfect timid Mary who only wants to play with dolls. I was the tomboy, climbing trees like Laura, and getting into trouble.

I love rereading this classic story that never gets old! There's a beauty to the writing style too that really paints a picture of family life on the frontier.

ঘুম থেকে উঠছি, দাঁত মাঝছি, নাস্তা খাচ্ছি, পুতুল নিয়ে খেলছি, ঘরের কাজ করছি, খাবার দাবার খাচ্ছি, গা ধুয়ে ফের ঘুমুতে যাচ্ছি। এটা একটা গল্প হলো? বড্ড একঘেয়ে হয়ে যাবেনা শুধু এসমস্ত বর্ণনা করে বিশাল একটা গল্প ফেঁদে বসলে? সাধারণ জ্ঞান তাই বলছিল কিন্তু শেষতক তা হয়ে উঠলো না। কেন? কারণ এগুলো কে বলছে তাও তো দেখা লাগবে , নাকি?

লরার গল্প তার ছোট্ট বাড়িটা আর সেখানে তার সারাদিনের খুঁটিনাটি নিয়ে। তার সাথে আছে তার দুই বোন , মা এবং পা! পা কিন্তু খুব সাহসী। একটুও বসে থাকেনা। এই শিকারে বের হচ্ছে, এই ধান মাড়াই নিয়ে হুড়োহুড়ি লাগাচ্ছে। মা টাও তেমনি। সারাদিন এ কাজ ও কাজ! লরা আর মেরিকেও সাথে সাথে দৌড়তে হচ্ছে। তবে সব একটু সাবধানে। কারণ তাদের ছোট বাড়িটা এক বিশাল বড় বনের পাশে। সেখানে রাতে নেকড়ে বের হয়, ভালুক থাকে এমনকি জাগুয়ার পর্যন্ত দেখা যায়। হরিণ এসে বাড়ির পাশের বাগানের গাছপালাও খেয়ে যায় মাঝে মাঝে।

এই যে এত ব্যাস্ততা, তার মধ্যেও পোষা কুকুর জ্যাককে নিয়ে ঠিক খেলতে বের হয়ে যায় দুই বোন। তিন নম্বরটি কোলের তাই এখনও সঙ্গী হয়নি তাদের। ঋতু ঘুরে ঘুরে আসে। বরফ পরে। ছুটির দিনগুলোতে দাদাবাড়িতে বেরাতে যাওয়া, দাদীমার হাতের মেপলের রস খাওয়া সেত আরেক উৎসব। পা কিন্তু বেশ রসিয়ে রসিয়ে এই মেপল সিরা সংগ্রহ , দাদুর ছোটবেলার গল্প বা নিজের পিটুনি খাওয়ার গল্প গুলো করে প্রায় সন্ধায়।

এই যে একঘেয়ে হবার কথা থাকা সত্ত্বেও গল্পটা মন ছুঁলো কেন জানেন? কারণ লরার নিষ্পাপ চোখ দিয়ে তার সাথে সাথে এসব কাজ আমরা করি প্রতিটি পৃষ্ঠায়। তার স্লেজের পিছনে চড়ে আমরাও যেন ঘুরতে যাই আংকেল পিটারের বাড়ি। যন্ত্র পাতির যুগে নেই, তাই ফসল মাড়াইয়ের মেশিনটা প্রথমবার দেখার মুগ্ধতা লরার সাথে সাথে আমাদেরকেও স্পর্শ করে। কি যে ভাল লাগে। যাই দেখছি তাতেই মুগ্ধ হচ্ছি! এই যে ইন্ডাস্ট্রিয়াল রিভলিউশনের সুবিধা লিখতে লিখতে হাত খয়ে ফেললাম হিস্টরির কোর্সে। এরপর সুযোগ আসলে খুব করে তুলোধুনো করে দিয়ে আসবো! জীবনটা আমার বনের ধারে কাঠের গুড়ির কেবিনে থেকে লরার মতো হতে পারতো হয়তো! দিল না সেটা হতে।

Ahhhh.... lovely memories come with this series of books!

Completely, utterly charming.Little House in the Big Woods is a most delightful big step back in time to the long ago days of America stretching her boundaries. This is a story told from thw perspective of a six year old 2 centuries ago.life full of hard work,risk,kindness and safety snug in a loving family.

A fun look at what life was like many, many years ago.

I was familiar with the TV show based on this series, but I’d never read the books themselves. What a delight!

There’s not much plot in this first book, which isn’t set on the prairie (that’s book #3) but in a little log house in a forest outside Pepin, Wisconsin in the early 1870s. Wilder recounts a year in the life of her family – she’s there in her autobiographical alter ego, bright middle child Laura – and most of it has to do with household and seasonal farm chores, with vignettes about rag dolls, Christmas, dangerous animals, visiting town for the first time, etc.

Wilder was in her 60s when she wrote this, and the clear, effective writing is suffused with a nostalgic but never sentimental air. You get a subtle sense of the differences between her and her more proper and attractive older sister, Mary, and you wonder at the life of their mother, who left what seemed to have been a more genteel upbringing in the east for a challenging, often hard life in the middle of nowhere.

Wilder’s respect for the land and nature – and her love for her family – comes through in every page. And the descriptions of things like churning butter and collecting maple syrup are more vivid than anything you might see on the Food Network.

I’m so impressed I now plan to read the other books in this series.

This is one of the little house books written by Mrs wilder about her childhood growing up with her mother, father,and her sisters Mary and Carrie when they lived in a cabin in the woods of wisconsin.it wasn,t an easy life but they had fun too even though everybody had a job to do and they had a good life even in the hard times, like when they could relax and listen to their pa play his fiddle it was a long way from civilization because pa liked plenty of space, and there were very few children her and her sisters ages so she and her sisters learned to depend on each other for companionship, Mrs wilder told about frontier life in the late eighteen hundreds so the reader feels like they are there and living that life with them and I would recommend the book for children and young adults

It just isn't possible for me to be objective about the Little House books. They were THE go to books for me as a child, and the comfort books as a teenager. This one is certainly written at a younger level, but I still loved reading about all of the work it took to run a farm - from making butter and cheese and straw hats, etc. Boy do I take a lot for granted. Anyway, I enjoyed it yet again! Perfect finals week comfort-reading :)

No plot, but still an addictive story of a life style both idyllic and boring as hell. And torturous Sundays!