this to my daughter has helped me rediscover the joy of the Little House series all over again, Probably the best gift this little book has to offer is that of perspective, How blessed but complicated our lives seem now, How very different and yet the same, I loved sharing a slice of history with my child who has no concept of life before dvr's, minivans, and microwaves, That a child could be happy with a corncob doll was a unique thought, This series should be on the reading list for every mother, This book was cute but kind of read like an instructional guide for six year olds on how to survive in the Wisconsin winter, and i'm not sure where there's a market for instructional guides for six year olds on how to survive in the Wisconsin winter.
I was obsessed with the Litte House books and the TV show when I was a child, I think I began reading and rereading the books in second grade, This time around I listened to it on audio, and it was my first time "reading" the book as an adult, I have to admit, I think this book may have played a big part in my choice to be a vegetarian at a young age! It's hard to imagine myyearold self making sense out of the hunting, etc.
The farm life in the woods is not for me! That said, the book will always hold a special place in my reading heart, and I hope to reread and/or listen to all of the books in the series again.
The Little House on the Prairie books bring back so many good memories, I have been looking for my box of old books for awhile now but still haven't found it, I'm really hoping it didn't get lost when I moved last year, There are so many books that I would love to reread,
I'm not sure why I didn't read these to my daughter, I think she had so many books that we just never got around to it,
Little House in the Big Woods is the first book of the series and will always be my favorite, but I did enjoy all of the books in the collection.
I tried to find the edition on here that looked most like what I remember, and I think this is the same cover that was on my book.
I can clearly my mom reading it to me before I could read myself, Sitting on my bed next to her watching as she read, Once I was able to read it myself I picked it up again to read to her, watching as her fingers slid underneath the words and helping me with the hard ones.
She mentioned the other day that it's one of her favorite memories too,
I loved all of the characters, Laura, Ma, Pa, Carrie and Mary as well as many others, I dreamt of living in that little cabin in the woods and desperately wanted Laura Ingalls as a best friend, The fun and adventures these children had along with their dog, Jack was entertaining every time it was read to me or by me.
When it was turned into a TV show, I was escastic! I remember it was on every Sunday atpm on Channel.
I was allowed to watch it while sitting in my dads lazyboy recliner and nothing could tear me away,
If I can't find my old books I will definitley buy another collection as I would love to reread them at some point.
Even writing this review has brought back great memories of these wonderful stories lt
What a wonderful blast from my past to pick up this first book in the series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
My favorite TV show when I was little was Little House on the Prairie, I wanted to be Laura Ingalls! I lived vicariously through her as I watched her life portrayed on my TV and just thought how awesome it would have been to live on the prairie with the Ingalls family.
This is written perfectly for a preteen, tween age about her life growing up in the pioneer times in Wisconsin, This is such a beautiful story of a loving family who always works
and plays together, We see a year in the life of the Ingalls family and get to look in on their daily lives, Ma and Pa Ingalls and theirdaughters, Mary, Laura and Carrie live in a log cabin in the middle of the Big Woods, This was a time and a lifestyle so different from today, Food must be grown and meat must be hunted, Clothes were made and everything was useful, Pa playing his fiddle before they went to bed and the girls begging him to tell them stories is so reminiscent of a simpler time and way of life.
I particularly enjoyed reading the scene about Mary and Lauras dolls:
Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie.
Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll, It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob, Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she did it only when Susan couldn't see,
These are books that I look forward to reading with grandchildren some day, I only remember reading Farmer Boy to my boys when they were little, I wish I had read them all to them, What wonderful conversations we could have had about pioneer living, I own all of these books and will look forward to the day when I have grandchildren when I can share some of my favorite books with a new generation! Little House in the Big Woods is what Walden wishes it was, or could have been if Thoreau wasn't sitelinksuch a dick.
Laura and her family aren't misanthropic creeps and they have real skills, unlike vacationing Thoreau, But the book is about selfreliance, getting back to the basics, and living in harmony with nature, It shares a philosophy with Walden along with two other sortof lessgreat things,
The first is a hopeless lack of plot, and that frustrated me when I first read it, And I do mean first read: this was the first chapter book I ever read all by myself, I battled through the entire series, because my mother told me I'd be a good reader when I was done, and I suppose it worked I can read! but honestly I should have just stuck to comic books the meandering pace here wasn't a great match for little me.
Some of the Little House books have more plot than others,
The second thing Little House shares with Walden is that it's sitelinkbullshit, Thoreau went home to his mommy when he wanted cookies, and Laura's real life family were subsistence farmers always one bad season away from starving to death.
Wilder leaves out her real brother's death in infancy to focus on singing by the fire, Both books hide the hardships of the lives they promote,
Wilder's book was published in, during the Depression, and it was a collaboration between Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who was a successful novelist and also a rabid libertarian who advocated the assassination of New Dealing FDR and threatened to sitelinkdo it herself.
This is the story Lane and Wilder want to sell you: hardy stock living by their own hard work without government interference, In reality, the Wilders lived harsh and desperate lives, Young, justmarried Laura's first farm failed, and she lost it, It was only these books that finally pulled her out of a life of poverty these books, which advocated exactly the grueling life they rescued her from.
That said, this is still a great source of information about such topics as:
Making maple sugar
Square dancing
How much Laura's sister sucks
Why children should be seen and not heard remember when that was a thing Ha!
Oldtimey songs, and there's a song about an "old darkey" who dies that you will need to watch out for if you're reading this to your child.
It's in chapter. That's the only truly ohshit content,
Weaving straw hats
Oldtime candy if there is a plot, it's that Laura Ingalls Wilder has a sweet tooth this book is basically about candy
Leaving babies in a pile on a bed while everyone does square dancing
Extremely specific gender roles
It's pleasant enough to read, if a little boring.
Just keep in mind, when Laura says,
"This is now, "
She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now, They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now, It can never be a long time ago,
It can never be now, either it never existed at all, This was AMAZING! Such a classic, and the vibe it gave was just, . .
P. S. The official audiobook version has singing and fiddle music every chapter! Little House in the Big Woods Little House, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls story begins inin a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Fouryearold Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack, Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter.
But it is also exciting as Laura and her folks celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip to town.
And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pas fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep.
And so begins Laura Ingalls Wilders beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family, The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into Americas frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سالمیلادی
عنوان: کلبه ی کوچک در جنگل بزرگ نویسنده: لورا اینگالز وایلدر مترجم: کاظم فائقی تبریز: یاراندرص موضوع: یادمانهای نویسندگان ایلات متحده امریکا سدهم
سری کتابهای نه گانه خانه ی کوچک اثر لورا اینگالز ویلدر دست نوشته های نویسنده از دوران کودکی خویش است که خوانشگران بسیاری را شیفته ی یادمانها و قلم خودش کرده است این مجموعه داستانهایی از یک خانواده آمریکایی گرم و مهربان است
کتاب نخست با عنوان: خانه کوچک در جنگل بزرگ: با خانواده انگالز ملاقاتی داشته باشید, مامان بابا مری و کری کوچولو که همه ساکن کلبه ای نقلی در جنگل در دههسده ی نوزدهم میلادی هستند. با اینکه همسایگان آنها: گرگها پلنگها و خرسها هستند جنگل برایشان همانند خانه است چرا که دستپخت مامان و صدای ویولن پدر را دارند.
کتاب دوم با عنوان: پسر کشاورز زمان میگذرد و لورا در خانه ی کوچک در کانزاس بزرگ میشود. آلمونزو ویلدر در مزرعه ای بزرگ در نیویورک زندگی میکند. او و برادرانش و خواهرش از سپیده دم تا وقت شام به سختی کار میکنند تا مزرعه خانوادگی را سرپا نگه دارند. آلمانزو آرزو دارد که اسبی برای خود داشته باشد اما اول باید ثابت کند که لایق این مسئولیت بزرگ است.
کتاب سوم با عنوان: خانه ای کوچک در چمنزار وقتی پدر تصمیم میگیرد کلبه خانواده را در جنگل بفروشد خانواده به کانزاس نقل مکان میکند جاییکه پدر خانه ای کوچک در چمنزار برایشان ساخته است. زندگی در چمنزار با جنگل متفاوت است ولی لورا و خانواده اش خود را با زندگی جدیدشان سرگرم و شاد میکنند.
کتاب چهارم با عنوان: کناره های نهر آلو خانواده ی اینگالز در کنار نهر آلو در خانه ای کاهی زندگی میکنند تا پدر برایشان خانه ای مقاوم و چوبی بسازد. پول ساخت این خانه از اولین محصول گندمشان بدست خواهد آمد اما دقیقا فصل برداشت محصول ابرهای سیاهی آسمان را تیره کردند. میلیونها ملخ به مزرعه حمله کرده و در پایان هفته دیگر گندمی برای برداشت وجود نداشت.
کتاب پنجم با عنوان: کنار برکه ی نقره ای پدر به بیابانی در غرب داکوتا رفت. وقتی که مادر مری لورا کری و گریس کوچولو به او ملحق شدند تبدیل به اولین ساکنین شهرک اسمت بودند. پدر مشغول ساخت اولین خانه ی این شهرک که کناره ی برکه ی نقره ای قرار داشت شد.
کتاب ششم با عنوان: زمستان بلند نخستین طوفان در ماه اکتبر به چمنزار بارن آمد. سپس تا ماه آپریل برف بدون توقف بارید. وقتی ارتفاع برف تا سقف خانه های شهرک رسید دیگر برای قطارها ممکن نبود که به مردم شهرک محصولات برسانند. لورا خانواده اش و مردم شهر در حال تلف شدن از گرسنگی بودند اما آلمانزو جوان که در شهر ساکن بود جان خود را برای نجات مردم به خطر میاندازد.
کتاب هفتم با عنوان: شهری کوچک در چمنزار سبزه زار بهار آمد و شهرک اسمت روحی تازه به خود گرفت. اما در کنار مهمانیها و تعطیلات کار باید ادامه میداشت. لورا با بافتن پیراهن به پدر و مادر برای کسب درآمد کمک میکرد تا بتوانند مری را به دانشگاه نابینایان بفرستند. ولی در عصرها لورا زمانی را برای آلمانزو ویلدر کنار میگذاشت.
کتاب هشتم با عنوان: این سال های طلائی لورا باید به کسب درآمد ادامه میداد تا بتواند به تحصیل مری در دانشگاه نابینایان یاری کند. به این منظور شغلی به عنوان آموزگار پیدا کرد. ساده نبود چرا که برای نخستین بار او باید دور از خانواده زندگی میکرد. ولی هر جمعه کمی زندگیش ساده تر میشد چرا که آلمانزو او را به خانه میرساند. با اینکه او بسیار جوان بود ولی میدانست که باید منتظر شروعی جدید با آلمانزو باشد.
کتاب نهم با عنوان: چهار سال ابتدایی لورا اینگالز و آلمانزو ویلدر به تازگی ازدواج کرده بودند. آنها به چمنزاری کوچک نقل مکان کردند تا با یکدیگر زندگی جدیدی را آغاز کنند. اما هر سال چالشی جدید در انتظارشان بود. از طوفان آتشسوزی گرفته تا مریضی و بدهیهای بسیار. این چهار سال ابتدایی شجاعت قدرت و مصمم بودن را میطلبید. اما با این همه ی مشکل لورا و آلمانزو عشقشان پایدار بود و با ورود رز کوچولو به زندگیشان عشقشان چند برابر هم شد. ا. شربیانی.