![]() ![]() As soon as he reached the end, he started on the next one, Little House on the Prairie, which inspired the TV show (which I liked well enough-though it always bothered me that Pa was beardless on TV, unlike the Pa in the book and my own Pa). ![]() ![]() I was six years old we had recently moved to Maine from Tennessee, and my father read it aloud to my sister Cynthia and me, one chapter at a time, before we went to sleep. The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees.” Is there not a hint of Hemingway in these opening lines of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1871 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age narrative? This-the first in her series of eight novels for children-is the book that made me a reader. “Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. ![]()
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