Dec 9, 2009

Little House in the Big Woods | Overview

For many years the Little House books have been popular with young people. This might seem surprising at first, for especially in Little House in the Big Woods, there are no villains, no major crises, and no important adventures. Illustration by Garth Williams for Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Harper & Row: New York (1953). Nevertheless, there are plenty of good times and enough conflict and suspense to make the book interesting. Young readers also seem to appreciate a novel made up of events that really happened and characters who really existed....