Little House in the Big Woods (The Little House on the Prairie)

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Spaeth, Janet. Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: Twayne, 1987. A critical biography with useful interpretations of the works. A part of the Twayne United States Authors series. David Armentrout and Patricia Armentrout (Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Publ., 2004), Laura Ingalls Wilder, Discover the life of an American legend, ISBN 1589526635, 24 pp., illustrated, OCLC 51722697 Eventually, the story completely took over her senses and she absolutely loved it. Loved it so much in fact, she demanded to know when we were going to “Laura's house,” like her big brother did when he was little. She also said she doesn't want to read any more states in our challenge, she just wants to read this series. Laura attends school with her younger sister, Carrie until the weather becomes too severe to permit them to walk to and from the school building. Blizzard after blizzard sweeps through the town over the next few months. The frequent blizzards prevent supply trains from getting through, and food and fuel become scarce and expensive. Eventually, the railroad company suspends all efforts to dig out the trains, leaving the town stranded. For weeks, the Ingallses subsist on potatoes and coarse brown bread, using twisted hay for fuel. As even this meager food runs out, Laura's future husband Almanzo Wilder and his friend Cap Garland risk their lives to bring wheat to the starving townspeople – enough to last the rest of the winter.

a b "Little house in the big woods"; Newly illustrated, uniform ed. LC Online Catalog. Retrieved September 21, 2015. Miller, John E. (May 1998). Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1167-5. Smulders, Sharon (2003). " 'The Only Good Indian': History, Race, and Representation in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie' ". Children's Literature Association Quarterly . 27 (4). Stories about Laura's daughter Rose Wilder Lane, written by her executor, heir, and "political disciple" Roger Lea MacBride: [13] [14] [15]For the first several chapters of this book, she kept saying, “So that girl with the brown hair. She's telling the story?” When I explained that yes, this is Laura's story, and it's a true story, she would say, “So, she's still a girl?” When I explained that no, she's not a girl anymore, and she is in fact dead now, my daughter became horrified, and wondered how a dead woman wrote this story. Kuznets, Lois R. (Spring 2000). "Wild and Wilder: Gendered Spaces in Narratives for Children and Adults". Michigan Quarterly Review. XXXIX (2). hdl: 2027/spo.act2080.0039.226. ISSN 1558-7266. The Little House Cookbook: Frontier foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic stories (Harper, 1979), Barbara M. Walker – features "recipes based on the pioneer food... in the Little House books", with description of pioneer food and cooking, 240 pp., OCLC 4196084 Each book contains lyrics to folk or patriotic songs. See The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook reference below for full lyrics and music.

John E. Miller (U. of Kansas, 1994), Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet, ISBN 0700606548, 208 pp., Google Books Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a story that tells of Laura’s early childhood and upbringing in Wisconsin during the 1870s. R The sixth book in the series take place mostly over the winter of 1880–1881, one of the most notably severe winters in history, also known as "The Snow Winter". [7] [8]Little House: The Rose Years Series by Roger Lea MacBride". www.goodreads.com . Retrieved April 11, 2018.

Inside Laura's Little House: The Little House on the Prairie Treasury (Harper, 2000), Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson, illus. Renée Graef, Cathy Holly and Garth Williams, 112 pp. – "chapters explore various topics from Little House on the Prairie, providing historical and biographical information, recipes, creative activities, and related songs", OCLC 41211419 [22] Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production Blog (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). School Library Journal. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012 . Retrieved October 31, 2015.The First Four Years derives its title from a promise Laura made to Almanzo when they became engaged. Laura did not want to be a farm wife, but she consented to try farming for three years. Their daughter Rose is born, then a son who dies at a few weeks old. Wheat crops fail, and Almanzo becomes partially paralyzed as a result of diphtheria. At the end of that time, Laura and Almanzo mutually agree to continue for one more year, a "year of grace", in Laura's words. That summer a fire destroys their house. The book ends at the close of that fourth year, on a rather optimistic note. Laura compares a farmer's hope for success year to year to her father's lifelong hope for a better life farther west. In reality, the continually hot, dry Dakota summers, and overwhelming debt eventually drove them from their land, but they later founded a very successful fruit and dairy farm in Missouri, where they lived comfortably until their respective deaths. [45] Additional books from the author [ edit ] I'm going to tell you a story about when Grandpa was a boy." The Story of Grandpa's Sled and the Pig. Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story. Burr Oak, Iowa. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum. 2001. ISBN 0-9610088-9-X