This February was the 160th anniversary of the birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Last month was also the 70th anniversary of her death as she lived to be 90 years old. Wilder was the author of the well known series of books called Little House on the Prairie. All eight of her books are available on Faded Page. Her series of books are based on her own life and experience growing up in the midwest United States in the 19th century.

Her first book, Little House in the Big Woods was published in 1932. The book introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.

Over the next 12 years, Wilder published seven more books. In the last of the series, These Happy Golden Years, Laura is now a fifteen-year-old girl who lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary’s tuition at the college for the blind.

This series of books is one of our most popular series on Faded Page. In total, her books have been downloaded nearly 150,000 times!

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