Laura Ingalls Wilder

While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing--his very own horse--but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.

Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.

A cold snap late in winter allows a pioneer girl and her family to enjoy the rich sugar candy made from maple tree sap.

Articles and fictional works by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, some of which were published in magazines of an earlier era, create a chronological account of their lives.

A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.

A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of Wilder's life and work. The letters span over sixty years of Wilder's life, from 1894-1956 and shed new light on Wilder's day-to-day life. Here we see her as a businesswoman and author, as a wife, and as a friend. In her letters, Wilder shares her philosophies, political opinions,...

A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.

Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.

A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner.