Life in the Big Wood is hard.  You have to worry about bears, wolves and getting sick and not being able to be treated because there is no hospitals. You have to worry about finding food and water. When you find food you have to skin it, chop it up, and salt it if you are going to save it. Then you have to put it up where the animals can't get it. In the winter, you just take down the food that you stored. That means before winter comes you have to save a lot a food up for the winter.

Pa is a good father because he provides food and shelter for his family. He plays with his daughters and tells them stories. He plays the fiddle for them and sings Yankee Doodle. He  shot a bear that was holding a boar. Then he said he "brought home the bacon."  During Butchering Time, Pa made a balloon out of a pig's bladder and the girls played with it and had fun. Then they ate the pig's tail, too.

Ma is a loving mother. I know this because she makes dolls for her girls out of paper. She makes little clothes and accessories for them. She also cooks and teaches the girls how to clean and stuff.

There are  two pets. There is a bulldog named Jack and a cat named Black Susan. At night Jack guards the house. They live in a log cabin in the Big Woods in the state of Wisconsin.

There are three children. They are all girls. The big sister's name is Mary. Then there is Laura, who is the main character, because she is the one who wrote the book. Then the baby's name is Carrie.

The girls have to play inside in the winter. Their family life is really good because they are the perfect little red-neck family. They are a loving family.