Little House books- what age?

[tigermeow]

I remember reading these when I was little. I'd love to read them with DD, but I have no idea if they'd be suitable or not. I bought a few 'My first little house' picture books and DD has lved reading those, so the chapter books are perhaps the next step up.

I may just go and buy a 'Little House in the Big Woods' tomorrow and read it myself! What age did you read these to your child?

Many thanks

I think you could read Little House in the Big Woods to a four year old. It's about when Laura and Mary were very little and has extremely short chapters.

IIRC the books got longer and (a bit) more complex as the girls themselves got older.

Oh I love those books - if ds is an only I'm still going to read them to him. I'll call it American Frontier History...

I want to get a complete set of little house books...... And Anne of green gables too

I have yet to discover a set I like the look of though

Sigh

dd read them at 8 ( is that yr 4) iirc and loved them

even I was sad when she finished them

I read little house in the big woods to ds at just on 4. I wanted a 'chapter' book as we were just about to move house, and I wanted the continuity. He enjoyed it then and was still enjoying it at 8. I tried Little House on the Prairie last year - didn't respond to it at all, so I guess the girl germs got in the way. Pity, because it is really quite an exciting story.

Laura turns five in Little House in the Big Wood - that one is, accordingly, utterly perfect for a 5yo (especially one who just happens to be called Laura Mary ). A little bit like Harry P., as Laura grows up the stories grow up with her, so it gets gently (gently being very operative word) more sophisticated. Actually my Laura learned to read them herself well before I could get anywhere near reading them my favourite, which is the Long Cold Winter one.

(She learned to read for herself somewhere in the middle of Plum Creek, which I remember because she announced it as Mulp Creek - typical early-reader's muddle - and though she's 8 now the word "Mulp" can still reduce her to a quivering heaving hiccuping heap.)

Dd1 adores them and is 7.
She has read all of them and is gutted!

Excellent, thank you!

DD2 is 8 and we have got as far as By the shores of silver lake. I know she could read them by herself now, but why should she have all the fun? DD3 is six and not at all interested .