Everyone believes they know Laura Ingalls Wilder to a certain extent. But there are gaps left out of her famous Little House books, and author Caroline Fraser pulls from unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records to fills in those holes. Fraser explores every angle, from Laura's pioneering childhood to her turbulent relationship with her daughter, author and editor Rose Wilder Lane.
640 pages.
Laura Ingalls Wilder is starting a new life with her husband, Almanzo, in their own little house on the prairie. They work hard to carve a life for themselves on their farm, and soon their daughter Rose is born. But the first four years of their marriage leads to many trials and hardships Laura and Almanzo never could have prepared for.
Book #9 in the Little House series. 134 pages.
Laura Ingalls is teaching on a claim shanty twelve miles away from her family in Dakota Territory. She is desperately homesick and unhappy, but perseveres to help Ma and Pa pay for her sister Mary’s education at a college for the blind. Every Sunday Almanzo Wilder comes to bring her home, and soon Laura is happily home again, where she can join in singing lessons and sleigh rides—and, perhaps best of all, go on buggy rides with Almanzo.
Book #8 in the Little House series. 289 pages.
With the end of the long winter comes spring socials, dances, and literaries. Despite an active social life, Laura remains as busy as ever on the farm and working at various odd jobs so Pa and Ma can afford for Laura's sister Mary to go to a special college for the blind.
Book #7 in the Little House series. 307 pages.
As the Ingalls family settles in Dakota Territory, the settlers are warned a hard winter looms. After the first blizzard hits in mid-October, Pa decides to heed the warning and moves the family into his store building in town. Blizzards repeatedly sweep the town, and supplies like coal, food, and fuel become commodities. Families resort to using burning hay to keep warm, but even that soon runs low. Rumors swirl around town about a settler who has enough hay to last the town the rest of the winter, and Almanzo Wilder risks his life to save the town.
Book #6 In the Little House series. 335 pages.
Laura Ingalls and her family once again find themselves traveling, this time heading from Minnesota to Dakota Territory. Pa works to build the new railroad as he scouts out a new homestead, briefly leaving Ma and the girls behind. They later take their first train ride to Silver Lake, where they spend the winter in the surveyors' house. In the spring, residents begin to build what will become the town of De Smet, South Dakota.
Book #5 in the Little House series. 385 pages.
Laura Ingalls and her family journey north in their covered wagon to Minnesota, settling in a sod house along Plum Creek. As she and her sisters help Ma around the house, Pa works to plant crops and build them a sturdier home, and soon Laura and Mary start attending school in town. But after a terrible winter and a grasshopper infestation, which devours Pa's crops, the Ingalls are left questioning their future in Minnesota.
Book #4 in the Little House series. 384 pages.
Growing up on his family farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wants a horse of his very own more than anything. When his father insists he's not quite responsible enough, Almanzo sets out show his father he is highly capable, as he ensures the farm runs smoothly with the help of his brother and sisters.
Book #2 in the Little House series. 384 pages.
Book #3 in the Little House series. 335 pages.
In 1871, four-year-old Laura Ingalls lives in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. In this first book in the Little House series, pioneer times are cast in an idyllic light as Pa and Ma farm the land on which their log cabin sits, Laura and her sisters Mary and Carrie celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, everyone pitches in for the spring planting and fall harvest, and the sound of Pa's fiddle lulls the family to sleep, safe in their cabin.
Book #1 in the Little House series. 198 pages.
I am so glad we have pipes for water.....
I swear if they say Pa's eyes twinkle one more time.
