These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls…

These Happy Golden Years (original 1943; edition 1971)

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Series: Little House: The Laura Years (8), Little House Novels, Chronological Order (book 23)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
8,820	63	930	(4.09)	124
Classic Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor. Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but she knows that her earnings can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks�??every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo. The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura's own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.… (more)

▾Book information

Member:	Sonya_Rhodes
Title:	These Happy Golden Years
Authors:	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Info:	Scholastic, Inc. (1971), Edition: Sixth Printing, Paperback, 289 pages
Collections:	Your library
Rating:
Tags:	None

Work Information

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1943)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by	MeganDahring, b.randell005, mikylakelsey, TheBooksofWrath, KBTinycat24, cmlfbiblioteca
Legacy Libraries	Edward St. John Gorey , Rose Wilder Lane

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Member recommendations

▾Lists

Favorite Childhood Books (97)

Best Newbery Honor Books (10)

NPRs Ultimate Backseat Bookshelf: 100 Must-Reads for kids 9-14 (66)

» 23 more

Honey For a Child's Heart (33)

Elevenses (60)

Female Author (159)

Best School Stories (30)

Ambleside Books (104)

Female Protagonist (149)

Books Set in South Dakota (5)

Bibliography for How to be a Heroine (34)

Books Read in 2024 (351)

Children's Literature 1900 - 1950 in order (37)

Literature of Honor for Boys (13)

Children's Chapter Books from 1940s, ... (12)

Pioneers (6)

Books Read in 2014 (1,041)

1940s (189)

What are your favourite books? (99)

Newbery Honor Books By Year - I - 1922-1980 (19)

Allie's Favourite 150 Books (56)

One-room schools -- children's/young adult fiction (10)

Favourite Love Stories (39)

Blindness experience -- children's/YA fiction and nonfiction (4)

Historical Fiction (876)

Five star books (1,639)

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 124 mentions

▾Member reviews

English (62) French (1) All languages (63)

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 62 (next | show all)

Family Saga

BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |

Gets a bit boring in the middle. (

)

Sasha_PersonalBooks | Dec 27, 2023 |

Laura is teaching school, and it's terrifying! Most of the students are taller than she is, and she must sleep away from home for the first time. Laura is miserable, but the money is needed to keep Mary in a college for the blind.

And every Friday--no matter what the weather--Almanzo Wilder arrives to take Laura home to her family for the weekend. Laura and Almanzo are courting, and even though she's not yet sixteen, she knows that this is a time for new beginnings.

PlumfieldCH | Dec 9, 2023 |

After listening to the first book of the little house series I couldn't resist myself to finish the series as soon as possible so that I know what happened to Laura and his family. I didn't read any other books before finishing this series. (

)

rezaulhayat | Aug 6, 2023 |

it doesn't matter that i never wanted to actually wear the clothes described herein; what matters is that the clothes were described _in detail_. (

)

alison-rose | May 22, 2023 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 62 (next | show all)

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (15 possible)

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Laura Ingalls Wilder	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Jeanmaire, Marie-Agnès	Traduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Williams, Garth	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

Belongs to Series

Little House Novels, Chronological Order (book 23)

Little House: The Laura Years (8)

Belongs to Publisher Series

Flammarion, Bibliothèque du Chat Perché

Is contained in

The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volume 2 (Library of America) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

By the Shores of Silver Lake/Farmer Boy/The First Four Years/Little House in the Big Woods/Little Town on the Prairie/The Long Winter/On the Banks of Plum Creek/These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

▾Awards and Honors

Awards

Newbery Medal (Honor Book – 1944)

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

These Happy Golden Years

Original title

These Happy Golden Years

Alternative titles

Original publication date

1943 (1e édition originale américaine, Harper & Row)

1979 (1e traduction et édition français, Bibliothèque du Chat Perché, Flammarion)

People/Characters

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Almanzo Wilder

Charles Ingalls

Caroline Quiner Ingalls

Mary Ingalls

(show all 8 items)

Important places

De Smet, South Dakota, USA

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Sunday afternoon was clear, and the snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.

Quotations

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Information from the French Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.

Anglais (Etats-Unis)

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Classic Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor.

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but she knows that her earnings can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks�??every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo.

The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura's own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.

Available online at The Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=t...

Haiku summary