英语泛读教程1Unit 1 Little House in the Big Woods.ppt

Text Little House in the Big Woods I. Title Little House in the Big Woods is the first of the eight volume series and Laura Ingalls Wilders first childrens book. It’s the story of Laura and her family and how life was for them in their log cabin deep in the woods. Picture of a Little House in the Big woods II. Author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Pepin, Wisconsin, in Feb. 7,1867. Her early life was spent constantly moving from place to place. They traveled through thick woods, over barren prairies, through the swollen Mississippi, and over icy waters all in their covered wagon. They moved from Missouri, to Kansas, to Wisconsin, to Minnesota, to Iowa and finally settled in De Smet, South Dakota, where her father claimed a homestead(家宅). When Laura started writing her classic “Little House” book series in 1932, she had no idea of creating fame for herself or the places where she had lived. She wrote simply to preserve tales of a lost era in American history, the pioneer period she vividly recalled from her growing-up years on the Midwestern frontier in the 1870’s and 1880’s. When Laura completed her eight-volume series in 1943, she had achieved a lasting and substantial literary picture of pioneer life as she had experienced it in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota. In 1954 the American Library Association established the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in her honor and Wilder was the first recipient. The award is now given every five years to the author who has made a substantial contribution to childrens literature. Most recently it was presented to Virginia Hamilton, who was also the first black author to win the Newbery Medal. Wilder died in Feb.1957 in Mansfield of a stroke. After her death, children all over the world continue to read and enjoy her books. Laura’s eight-volume series: Little House in the Big Woods (1932)Farmer Boy (1933)Little House on the Prairie (1935)On the Banks of Plu