#82 in Middle grade
Little House in the Big Woods
- 228
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Little House in the Big Woods” is less a story than a warm, detailed picture of family life in 1870s Wisconsin. It works well read aloud: children hear how food is stored for winter, how Christmas is kept and how maple syrup is made, with no tragedy in this first volume. An adult coming to it fresh may find it plotless and a little distant. Best shared with young children.
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About the book
Little House in the Big Woods is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932. 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.
Reading order · Little House on the Prairie
Full order & progress →- Little House in the Big WoodsThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Farmer Boy
7.97.9 / 10 - Little House on the Prairie
7.97.9 / 10 - On the Banks of Plum Creek
7.97.9 / 10 - By the Shores of Silver Lake
7.77.7 / 10 - The Long Winter
7.97.9 / 10 - Little Town on the Prairie
7.87.8 / 10 - These Happy Golden Years
7.87.8 / 10 - The First Four Years
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 377 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 72% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Middle grade average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 56 | 15% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 10 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 311 | 83% |
Frequently asked
What age is Little House in the Big Woods for?
Little House in the Big Woods sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 228 pages — shorter than 63% of the ranked books in Middle grade.
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