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|title=Little House In The Big Woods

|author=Laura Ingalls Wilder

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=137

|publisher=Mammoth

|date=May 1992

|isbn=0749709316

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Oh y'know; just those few words are enough to bring on nostalgia and send me rushing upstairs for the thirty-year-old, dog-eared Puffin copy of Little House in the Big Woods which still has pride of place on my bedroom bookshelf. There reside all my favourite, most read volumes. The first instalment of a long series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is set just before the Ingalls family pushed further west to the prairie of television fame. I must have been six or seven years old when I read it first and lord knows how many times I've gone back to it since then. I'll tell you what I like about that opening sentence; it's the big B and the big W in Big Woods. I remember clearly reading this very first page for the very first time long ago, and I remember clearly jumping straight in to the world of a little girl living in an isolated house with her family in those Big Woods. That big B and big W send me straight back there even now. It's a magical piece of writing, don't you think? It worked for me at six and it works for me now at well past thirty-six.

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