Laura Ingalls Wilder Author of the Little House Books When LAURA INGALLS WILDER started writing her classic Little House book series in 1932, she had no idea of creating fame for herself or the places where she had lived. She wrote simply to preserve tales of a lost era in American history, the pioneer period she vividly recalled from her growing-up years on the midwestern frontier in the 1870's ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder : Teacher Resource File | Biography | Unit/Lesson Plans

Little House on the Prairie Collector's Edition By Laura Ingalls Wilder CHAPTER ONE A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing ...