Laura spends her fifteenth summer working hard to help send Mary to a college for the blind.

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Engaging discussion questions and activities help students appreciate the enduring novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Cross-curricular before-, during-, and after-reading activities provide a comprehensive study of Little Town on the Prairie.

Harlo Jones describes his childhood and adolescence from the late 1920s to the early 1940s in Dinsmore, Saskatchewan, sixty-five miles from Saskatoon.

Beyond their status as classic children’s stories, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books play a significant role in American culture that most people cannot begin to appreciate. Millions of children have sampled the books in school; played out the roles of Laura and Mary; or visited Wilder homesites with their parents, who may be fans themselves. Yet, as Anita Clair Fellman shows, there is even more to this magical series with its clear emotional appeal: a covert political message that made many readers comfortable with the resurgence of conservatism in the Reagan years and beyond. In Little House, Long Shadow, a leading Wilder scholar offers a fresh interpretation of the Little House books that examines how this beloved body of children’s literature found its way into many facets of our culture and consciousness—even influencing the responsiveness of Americans to particular political views. Because both Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, opposed the New Deal programs being implemented during the period in which they wrote, their books reflect their use of family history as an argument against the state’s protection of individuals from economic uncertainty. Their writing emphasized the isolation of the Ingalls family and the family’s resilience in the face of crises and consistently equated self-sufficiency with family acceptance, security, and warmth. Fellman argues that the popularity of these books—abetted by Lane’s overtly libertarian views—helped lay the groundwork for a negative response to big government and a positive view of political individualism, contributing to the acceptance of contemporary conservatism while perpetuating a mythic West. Beyond tracing the emergence of this influence in the relationship between Wilder and her daughter, Fellman explores the continuing presence of the books—and their message—in modern cultural institutions from classrooms to tourism, newspaper editorials to Internet message boards. Little House, Long Shadow shows how ostensibly apolitical artifacts of popular culture can help explain shifts in political assumptions. It is a pioneering look at the dissemination of books in our culture that expands the discussion of recent political transformations—and suggests that sources other than political rhetoric have contributed to Americans’ renewed appreciation of individualist ideals.

Virginia L. Wolf presents a multifaceted perspective on Laura Ingalls Wilder's book "Little House on the Prairie," the "Little House" series of books, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's place in children's literature.

Presents a brief history of the one-room schools that existed in the United States from the 1700s to the 1950s.

Follows the adventures of the Ingalls family from the time they find a livable homestead in De Smet, Dakota Territory, through the courtship and marriage of Laura and Almanzo.

Go back in time with heartland historian John E. Miller to De Smet, Laura Ingalls Wilder's little town on the prairie; Manchester, hometown of prairie painter Harvey Dunn; and Fort Pierre, fur-trade crossroads and site of Lewis and Clark's tense encounter with the lordly Teton (Lakota Sioux). Winner - Mountain Plains Library Association Literary Contribution Award.

Traditional American songs that Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family would have known, including "Pop! Goes the Weasel," "America," and "Oh, Susanna," are introduced by appropriate excerpts from the "Little House" books.

Four essays provide useful introductions to the land and the people, the history, and the fiction of the grasslands of Canada and the United States. Annotations direct readers and researchers to relevant materials in history and literature. ...An excellent bibliography...good interpretative essays...--WOMEN'S DIARIES

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

New rack-sized editions of the classic books by Laura Ingalls Wilder--published in the spring of 2003--are now packaged together in this beautiful nine-volume gift set.

Newspaper articles written between 1911 and 1925 describe the author's life in the years following those covered in her children's books.