Inside the little house in the Big Woods live the Ingalls family: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie. Outside the little house are the wild animals: the bears and the bees, the deer and the wolves. This is the tale of how they live together, in harmony mainly, but sometimes in fear.
The sun-kissed prarie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving and they soon find that they must share the land with wild bears and Indians. Will there be enough land for all of them?
After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prarie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town close by. But how will they settle in such a busy place after the wild lands in which they've grown up?
From the author of Little House on the Prairie , this book tells of the first four years of Laura's marriage to Almanzo, the birth of their daughter Rose, and their struggle on the land on the South Dakota prairie. It also tells that their last pioneering journey brought them over that horizon to a lifelong and happy home.
The sun-kissed prarie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving as they soon find that they must share the land with wild bears and Indians. Will there be enough room for all of them?
The log house where Laura and her family live is warm and cosy, but the surrounding woods are full of wolves and bears. When the snow comes their house will be nearly buried and Pa will have to make sure there's enough food to last the winter. It will take strength to survive.
After all their travelling, from the big woods and the prairie, the Ingalls family have found a new place to settle - Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town close by. But how will they settle in such a busy place after the wild lands in which they've grown up?