Little Town on the Prairie
By Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780060264505, 320pp.)
Publication Date: October 14, 1953
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Mass Market Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
Categories: Classics, Family - General, Historical - United States - 19th Century
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The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House in the Big Woods. She and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Later, Laura and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There, believing in the importance of knowing where you began in order to appreciate how far you've come, Laura wrote about her childhood growing up on the American frontier. For millions of readers Laura lives on forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books.












