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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Across the Curriculum with Favorite Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder by Dona Herweck Rice. Teacher Created Materials, 112 pages. This book for teachers provides information on the author and her books, and provides many activities which are related to the books. It provides sample lesson plans, a biographical sketch of the author, and cross-curricular worksheets relating the author to her times.  There are also reproducible worksheets and activities related to  Wilder's  Little House books, such as knitting, making butter, making a rag doll, weaving, candle making, building a log house with long pretzels or paper, playing Cat's Cradle, and many more.  The culminating activity in this book is "Life in the Little House"  -- a sort of festival honoring the author and her works. At the end of the book are an author map and locations, an author chronology, a bibliography, and an answer key.  BTH-597. $11.95*

  Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography by William Anderson, HarperTrophy, 1995. This biography for childen ages 8-12 gives readers a fresh look at Laura during her youth and gives a detailed look at the events she has covered in her own Little House series. The reader also learns what happened to Laura after the end of the last Little House book. 240 pages with index. BTH-5671. $4.95*

Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Author's Story by Sarah Glasscock.A Pair-It Book. Reading Level Grade 2-3. A child's short biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, illustrated with photographs of the period. 25 pages, including index and glossary. BTH-4522. Click title link to check availability, current price, or to purchase.

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Author of the Little House Books by Carol Greene. Children's Press, paper. 46 pages. This biography for primary children is part of the Rookie Biography series. It tells about Laura Wilder's life growing up in the little houses she later wrote about, her early married life, the move to Rocky Ridge Farm, and how she became a writer. There are many illustrations and photographs to enhance the text. At the back are a listing of important dates in Laura's life, a list of her books, and an index. Now OP. BTH-5661. $4.95*

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up in the Little House by Patricia Reilly Giff. The author explains some of the background of the events Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about in her books, for readers 7-11. 56 pages. BTH-5673. $4.29-D (May have slight damage to corner of cover.)

  Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of The Little House on the Prairie by Donald Zochert. Avon, 1977. Mass Market Paperback size. This book draws on the unpublished memoirs of Laura Ingalls Wilder to tell the story of her life and marriage to Almanzo Wilder on an adult level. Index and 16 pages of photos. 241 pages. BTH-5672. $5.39-D

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl by Megan Stine, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1992. This biography of the beloved author if for readers 7-10, reading level 3.5. 101 pages. BTH-5674. $4.05

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer by Beatrice Gormley. Part of the Childhood of Famous Americans Series. For ages 8-12. This biography is just right for those reading the Little House Series.

Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories by Barbara Walker. Trade paper edition. More than 100 recipes from Wilder's childhood, each prefaced by a short essay on the dish's origins, development, and characteristics. The author shares a bit more tidbits on Laura's life here in the various chapter introductions. Chapters include Food in the Little Houses; The Cook's Domain; Staples from the Country Store; Foods from the Woods, Wilds, and Waters; Foods from Tilled Fields; Food from Gardens and Orchards; Foods from the Barnyard; and Thirst Quenchers and Treats. Resources at the back include a glossary, metric conversion chart, bibliography, and index. Illustrated by Garth Williams HC-4360908.

My Little House Crafts Book: 18 Projects from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Stories by Carolyn Collins and Christian Eriksson. .Share a part of Laura's pioneer days by learning how to make some of the same things that she and her family made for their homes on the frontier. These include Charlotte's Straw Hat, Ma's Embroidered Pillow-Sham, Mary's Christmas Tassels, Ma's Button Lamp, Mary's Beaded Bracelet and Ring, Laura's Corncob Doll, Ma' s Willow-Bough Broom, Ma's Prairie Garden, Alice's Straw Air-Castle, Baby Carrie's Button String, Laura's Bear's-Track Quilt Pillow, Pa and Laura's Hay Sticks, Laura's Woolen Hood and Muffler, Little Town patty Mapkins, Little Town Orange Flowers, Mary's Beaded Lamp Mat, and Laura's Golden Wheat-Sheaf Bread.

Each project has some historical background related to the books, a list of things needed, and illustrated step-by-step instructions. There is an index at the end. 36 pages. BTH-2373. $10.76-D

Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson, Illustrated by Don Andreasen. HarperCollins, 1998. This picture book biography for children 7-10 tells the story of Laura's life from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm. Unpaginated. BTH-4431. $6.29-D

The Books in the Little House Series

These  are based on Laura's life and each covers a different phase or location.
For ages 8-12

Little House in the Big Woods: This is set in the Wisconsin woods in the late 1870's. Laura lives with her parents and her sisters, Mary and Baby Carrie. BTH-5664. $5-95*

Little House on the Prairie: Pa has sold the big house in the woods and the family sets out for Indian country, traveling from Wisconsin to Kansas. There Pa builds a house on the prairie, where farm life proves difficult, and sometimes even dangerous. BTH-5663. $5.95*

Farmer Boy: Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State while Laua Ingalls is living on the western prairie. He and his brother and sisters work all day at their chores most days, in all kinds of weather. But occasionally  there is time for fun, and Almanzo  loves more than anything to spend his spare time with the horses. BTH-5662 $5.95*

On the Banks of Plum Creek: Now the family is settling in Minnesota, first in a sod house, and then in a clean new house made of sawed lumber -- beside Plum Creek. Pa is depending upon the money from his first crop of wheat to pay for the materials, but just before the harvest, grasshoppers cover the field, eating everything on the farm, including the precious wheat. BTH-5667. $5.95*

By the Shores of Silver Lake: Now Pa heads west to the Dakota Territory, and when Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and baby Grace arrive to join him, they become the first settlers in the town of De Smet. Pa begins to work on the first building  in what will soon be a new town on the shores of Silver Lake.BTH-5665 $5.95*

 The Long Winter: In this book, the first storm comes to the barren Dakota prairie in October and it snows almost non-stop until April. Tains can't get through with supplies and the people in De Smet are starving, including Laura's family. They wonder how they will make it through this terrible winter. Finally, young Almanzo Wilder sees what needs to be done to save the town, and he does it, at the risk of his life. BTH-5670. $4.95*

The Little Town on the Prairie: The long winter is finally over, and Laura's social life picks up in the spring with parties and "Literaries." But Laura also spends hours each day making shirts to sell and  help send Mary to a college for the blind. And in the evenings, Almazno Wilder begins to call on Laura. BTH-5666. $5.95*

These Happy Golden Years: Now Laura is teaching school. She is miserable and homesick, but she needs the money so that Mary can attend a college for the blind. Every Friday Almanzo arrives to take Laura home to her family for the weekend. They have begun courting, even though Laura in only fifteen. BTH-5668. $5.95*

The First Four Years: Now Laura and Almazo are married. They have begun their life together on a small prairie homestead with high hopes, but disaster seems to follow disaster -- storms, sickness, fire, and unpaid debts. They need courage, strength, determination, and their love to carry them through the hard times. And now there is a new family member -- baby Rose.  BTH-4669. $5.95*

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