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Little House on the Prairie fans: Read These Books
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items If you’re a fan of Little House, consider these books the next time you’re at the library or wanting to buy. As a lifelong fan of the book and TV series, I’ve read almost every book there is about Laura’s life. These are the books I’ve enjoyed the mo...
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Laura’s Real Life
Home Sites
Little House On the Prairie Box Set
Laura’s Real Life
This book is fantastic and edited by the authority on all things Laura, Pamela Smith Hill. This is Laura’s original manuscript. Written for an older audience, it covers settling of Dakota Territory, the building of the railroad west and life as a pio...
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder ...
Great look at who Laura was, the time period and a look at her adulthood.
Prairie Fires: American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
This is a neat book! It discussed how her real life was different from her stories. Focuses on her adult life and how she came to write the Little House series. It includes one chapter for each of Laura's nine Little House books - exploring in detail...
The World of Little House: Illustrated Biography
This author is my favorite of those who have written about Laura. This book includes excerpts from letters and newspapers used to paint a picture of the journey to create the Little House series. It focuses on Wilder's life as an author - including t...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life
This book blew me away. Highly recommend for fans. This book follows Rose Wilder Lane’s life from childhood to travels abroad and then back to Missouri. The author makes claims that Rose fine tuned her mom’s writing. He isn’t calling her a fraud bu...
The Ghost in the Little House: Rose Wilder Lane
This book gives the reader a look into Laura’s real life from people who knew her. It features stories, letters, interviews and recollections of her youth and adult years and includes picture of Ma's famous pickle recipe!
I Remember Laura: Laura Ingalls Wilder - Books
This book is very well researched and gives a behind-the-scenes account of Laura's life. Including the real events that inspired her to write her stories. What I really appreciated was reading about her life after the last Little House book ends.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography, by William Anderson
This book focuses on Laura’s years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. The author sources from her unpublished autobiography, letters and newspaper stories to fill the gaps in Laura’s novels and describes her 63 years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. Ve...
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman
Controversy has surrounded the Little House Series of books in the last few years. The series racist and stereotypical depictions of Native Americans and Black people - sparking debates about teaching these today.
Laura expert Pamela Smith Hill div...
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder
Home Sites
Excellent look inside the actual sites that Laura speaks of in her books. From her final home at Rocky Ridge to the dugout at Plum Creek, you get a peek inside with beautiful photos and detailed information including how to access the sites.
The Little House Guidebook by Anderson & Kelly
This has been so fun to try. Gives the recipes that Laura talks about in her books. Snow Ice Cream was the very first recipe that I tried.
The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods
This guide is awesome. It lets you see the land the Ingalls family homesteaded, see inside Surveyors' House they spent the winter of 1879-1880 in, shows the street where Laura got her first ride behind Almanzo's Morgan horses. Perfect guide
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De Smet: Insider Travel Guide to Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House On the Prairie Box Set
A wonderful set of books for youngsters. A fictional look at what it was to settle westward in the 1800's.
Little House Complete 9-Book Box Set: Books 1 to 9