Little House in the Big Woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder / 238 pages / November Challenge Deceased Authors

This is the first of nine Little House books written by Missouri's own Laura Ingalls Wilder.  These classics lovingly depict life on the American frontier through the eyes of one spunky young heroine.  Based on Laura's own life and family, the Little House stories begin in 1871 in a little log house on the edge of the Big Woods in Wisconsin.  "They were cozy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and wind crying because it could not get in by the fire."