![]() Although she writes in an appealing, folksy style and fictionalised many of the less savoury aspects of their existence, Laura Ingalls Wilder doesn’t scrimp on the hard details. This is bear country.Įvery available space in the little house is filled with food, even the attic where the girls play. He’s not the only one with his eye on the hog though. Pa has to wait wait for the perfect moment to slaughter the family pig, so its meat will freeze as the snow arrives. ![]() Meat is caught, skinned, salted and stored. The story begins as the family make their preparations for winter. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.’ ![]() ‘As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. The first of the Little House series of books is an idealised depiction of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s early years spent living in almost total isolation in the woods of Wisconsin in the 1870s. In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat. Then the log house would be almost buried in snowdrifts, and the lake and the streams would freeze. ![]() The days were shorter, and frost crawled up the window panes at night. ![]()
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