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
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"...because now is now. It can never be a long time ago." The Little House in the Prairie series are widely read books both among boys and girls, and have been since they were first written over half a century ago. They are a perfect way to introduce youngsters to life both in its simplicities and difficulties during the mid to late 1800s.
I read them multiple times growing up both for their tender portrayal of family life and for their exciting detail on travelling in a covered wagon, cleaning a rifle, escaping from an enraged panther and riding in a sleigh bundled in layers.
Every child must experience the feeling that "now" will be forever, and Laura Ingalls Wilder creates within us the longing that we all live with her in the Big show more Woods of Wisconsion or at least in the dugout on the prairie. show less
I read them multiple times growing up both for their tender portrayal of family life and for their exciting detail on travelling in a covered wagon, cleaning a rifle, escaping from an enraged panther and riding in a sleigh bundled in layers.
Every child must experience the feeling that "now" will be forever, and Laura Ingalls Wilder creates within us the longing that we all live with her in the Big show more Woods of Wisconsion or at least in the dugout on the prairie. show less
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Wilder was born near Pepin, Wisconsin; attended school in DeSmet, South Dakota; and became a teacher before she was 16, teaching for seven years in Dakota Territory schools. She and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, farmed near DeSmet for about nine years and then moved to Mansfield, Missouri, where they lived out the rest of their days. Wilder did not show more write her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, about her early years in Wisconsin, until late in life, on the urging of her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. It was first published in 1932. She followed this with Farmer Boy (1933), a book about her husband's childhood in New York State. She then completed a series of books about her life as she and her family moved westward along the frontier. Little House on the Prairie (1935) records the family's move to Kansas. On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937) describes the family's move to Minnesota. By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939) records the family's move to South Dakota, as do the final three books in the series: The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie (1941), and These Happy Golden Years (1943), which ends with her marriage to Almanzo Wilder. Three of Wilder's books were published posthumously: On the Way Home, a diary of her trip to Mansfield; The First Four Years, an unfinished book about her first four years of marriage; and West from Home, letters she wrote on a visit to her daughter in San Francisco, none of them up to the quality of her earlier books. At her best, Wilder employs a clear, simple style, a wealth of fascinating detail, and a straightforward narrative style. Her tales of a strong, traditional frontier family that endures the hardships of the late eighteenth century are seen through the eyes of a child, which endears them to young readers. Her work is possibly the best example of historical realistic fiction for children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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