Little House in the Big Woods

author

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1867 - 1957

illustrator

Helen Sewell

1896 - 1957

Garth Williams

1912 - 1996

first publication date: 1932

genre: family saga, Western, children's novel

part of the series: Little House on the Prairie

series ordinal: 1

original title: Little House in the Big Woods

original language: English

narrative location: Wisconsin

Little House in the Big Woods is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932 (reviewed in June). It was Wilder's first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s. Source: Wikipedia (en)