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TBT: Little House

Hello Lovelies! Today's TBT is about a series which I adored as a child (pre-Harry Potter days of course). Referred to in many different ways, the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder were my jam when I was six or seven.  I seriously read the first book like five or six times. I always tried to keep reading, but I'd get stuck on Farmer Boy (because I was like who's this weird boy and what's he doing in my book?). Little House on the Prairie, I enjoyed, but I didn't like as much as the Big Woods. And I tried to read On the Banks of Plum Creek but for some reason, kept not finishing it.  This last semester, I had to read Little House in the Big Woods for one of my classes, and it made me remember just how much I adored the book when I was younger. It made me want to reread (or read) the rest of the series.  These books are not unproblematic. Their treatment of Native Americans and Black people is especially disconcerting to my grown-...