Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and Americas best-loved pioneer family. Inside the little house in the Big Woods live the Ingalls family: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie. Outside the little house are the wild animals: the bears and the bees, the deer and the wolves. This is the classic tale of how they live together, in harmony mostly, but sometimes in fear . The timeless stories that inspired a TV series can now be read by a new generation of children. Little House in the Big Woods is the prequel to Little House on the Prairie and On the Banks of Plum Creek.

 

 

For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams' interior art in vibrant, full colour, as well as beautifully redesigned covers. The adventures continue for Laura In galls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and ploughing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy in their new little house.

 

 

After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prarie, the In galls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town close by. But how will they settle in such a busy place after the wild lands in which they've grown up? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

 

 

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and Americas best-loved pioneer family. When a blizzard cuts the town of De Smet off from the railroad, the community is left for weeks without food or fuel deliveries and the Ingalls family are forced to eke out the last of their supplies. As the terrible winter drags on, things begin to look desperate, until Almanzo Wilder and his friend brave the icy storms in search of help from another settlement.

 

Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and Americas best-loved pioneer family. Laura Ingalls is hoping to gain her teaching certificate and is determined to study hard at school. The school exhibition gives Laura the perfect chance to impress and as she approaches her sixteenth birthday, she hopes to get a job teaching at a nearby settlement.  But Nellie Oleson, Lauras arch rival will do anything to make things difficult for her . . .