From her images of the "great, dark trees of the Big Woods" to the endless grass of the prairies in the west, Laura Ingalls Wilder's depictions of frontier life for America's pioneers in her beloved "Little House" series of children's books have won her countless fans. Now the writer's autobiography, from which she drew the material that has delighted readers for decades, will be published this autumn for the first time, more than 80 years after she first wrote it. Wilder created that chapter from a show in which Pa did not even take part. That episode was written expressly for the entertainment of American children. This was in 1941, two years after Marian Anderson sang in front of the Lincoln Memorial. A teenage Laura might not have grasped where the offense lay. But the adult Wilder certainly could. This first teaching job proves difficult for her. Laura must board with the Brewsters in their two-room claim shanty, sleeping on their sofa. The Brewsters are an unhappy family and Laura is deeply uncomfortable observing the way husband and wife quarrel. In one particularly unsettling incident, she wakes in the night to see Mrs Brewster standing over her husband with a knife. It is a bitterly cold winter, and neither the claim shanty nor the schoolhouse can be heated adequately. The children she is teaching, some of whom are older than she is, test her skills as a teacher. Laura grows more self-assured through her time there, and she successfully completes the two-month assignment, with all five of her pupils sorry to see her go. In addition, simplified versions of the original series have been published for younger children in chapter and picture book form.

Tanya Lee Stone ( Dorling Kindersley, Laura Ingalls Wilder, DK biography, ISBN 0756645077, 128 pp., illustrated, OCLC 230204902 Cole, Marcus (January 2, 2000), Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rob Halverson, Terra Allen, Alandra Bingham , retrieved April 11, 2018 The story begins when the family is about to leave Plum Creek shortly after the family has recovered from the scarlet fever which caused Mary to become blind. The family welcomes a visit from Aunt Docia, whom they had not seen for several years. She suggests that Pa and Ma move west to the rapidly developing Dakota Territory, where Pa could work in Uncle Henry's railroad camp at very good wages for that era. Ma and Pa agree, since it will allow Pa to look for a homestead while he works. The family has endured many hardships at Plum Creek, and Pa especially is anxious for a new start. After selling his land and farm to neighbors, Pa goes ahead with the wagon and team. Mary is still too weak to travel, so the rest of the family follows later by train. [36]Stories about what happened between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake, the fourth and fifth novels by Ingalls Wilder, written by Cynthia Rylant Santa Comes to Little House: from Little House on the Prairie (Harper, 2001), Ingalls Wilder, illus. Renée Graef, unabridged, OCLC 45263874

My Little House Christmas Crafts Book (Harper, 1997), multiple writers, illus. Mary Collier and Deborah Maze, 42 pp., OCLC 37808575 The Ingalls family is always bustling about and preparing for the next season. There very survival depends on their cooperation. S. Ward (NY: PowerKids Press, 2001), Meet Laura Ingalls Wilder, About the author, ISBN 0823957128, 24 pp., illustrated, OCLC 43751877

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Little House on the Prairie, published in 1935, is the third of the series of books known as the Little House series, but only the second book to focus on the life of the Ingalls family. The book takes place from 1874 to 1875. Sallie Ketcham (Routledge, 2014), Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie, ISBN 1136725733, 180 pp., Google BooksGinger Wadsworth (Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2000), Laura Ingalls Wilder, Carolrhoda on my own books, ISBN 1575052660, 48 pp., illus. Shelly O. Haas, OCLC 40954094 Little House Sisters: Collected stories from the Little House books (Harper, 1997), Ingalls Wilder, illus. Garth Williams, 90 pp., OCLC 35223107 Donald Zochert (Chicago: H. Regnery, 1976), Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, ISBN 0809281740, 260 pp., OCLC 1959445