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The story of the first book in the series, Little House in the Big Woods revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their small home near Pepin, Wisconsin.

The family includes mother Caroline Ingalls, father Charles Ingalls, eldest daughter Mary Amelia Ingalls, and youngest daughter ( and protagonist ), Laura Ingalls Wilder.

In the book, Laura turns five years old, when actually the real-life author had only been three during the events of the book.

According to a letter from her daughter, Rose, to biographer William Anderson, the publisher had Laura change her age in the book because it seemed unrealistic for a three-year-old to have specific memories such as she wrote about.

For similar reasons and for the sake of consistency, in the later book, Little House on the Prairie, Laura portrayed herself as 6 – 7 years old.