Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder · first published 1932
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The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical activities on a farm in that era will captivate the imaginations of young and old alike. This series also contains the titles Little House on the Prairie, On The Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lak
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> snow scene You’ve reminded me of a section in Laura Ingalls Winder’s ‘Little House in the Big Woods’, chapters 7 and 8 with the sugar snow. They make maple syrup and it’s a bumper year as their is a cold snap after an initial thaw. The description of the process, the celebration and the eating it…
on “Quebec’s Great Maple-Syrup Heist (2016)” ↗We recently read Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods to the kids. The parents’ life was non-stop work from sun-up to sundown and beyond, and while there was some downtime in the winter, everyone was basically homebound. It did not seem like a bad life at…
on “Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)” ↗I think Laura Ingalls Wilder talked about that in Little House in the Big Woods.
on “Children's Games (Bruegel)” ↗…they wrote "Sears, Roebuck and Co. supply the needs of more than eight million families." https://archive.org/details/storyofsearsroeb00sear/page/2/mo... So, go back another 50 years, to the 1870s of "Little House in the Big Woods". The family had venison, fish, pork, bear meat, squirrel, rabbit, "potatoes and carrots, the beets and turnips and cabbages" from their garden, red peppers, pumpkins, squashes, and yellow cheeses - all…
on “Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for free?” ↗…That said, the Wilders did depend on markets to live. They depended on a rifle, and on metal tools (including sewing needles), and tin pots. Nor do they make their own cloth. I'll quote some lines from "Little House in the Big Woods": > The nearest town was far away. Laura and Mary had never seen a town. They had never seen a store. They had never seen even two houses standing together. But they knew that in a town there were many…
on “Could Rome have had an industrial revolution?” ↗> So, go back another 50 years, to the 1870s of "Little House in the Big Woods". It’s cute for sure but I don’t know if I’d use a novel for children as an accurate portrayal of the median subsistence living experience 150 years ago.
on “Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for free?” ↗