The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America's heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America's quintessential pioneer story.
Show moreThe adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America's heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America's quintessential pioneer story.
Show moreLaura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) was born in a log cabin in the
Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout
America's heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in
Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only
daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to
Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they
established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote
the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine
Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on
into the twenty-first century as America's quintessential pioneer
story.
Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred
books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E. B.
White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House
series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. He
founded an art school near London and served with the British Red
Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. Williams worked as a
portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing
his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous
career illustrating some of the best known children's books.
In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also
illustrated George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square and its
sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). He created the character and
pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban
(HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by
Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). He collaborated with Margaret Wise
Brown on her Little Golden Books titles Home for a Bunny and Little
Fur Family, among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry
collections published by Greenwillow: Ride a Purple Pelican and
Beneath a Blue Umbrella. He also wrote and illustrated seven books
on his own, including Baby Farm Animals (Little Golden Books) and
The Rabbits' Wedding (HarperCollins).
Gr 3-6-Laura Ingalls Wilder fans will rejoice at the fine presentation of her novels in audio format. Cherry Jones brings to life Pa, Ma, Laura, and all the other characters. Performed at the right tempo for the intended audience, Jones changes her voice just enough for each character so they can easily be distinguished. Singing period songs as Pa, exclaiming with delight over some new discovery as Laura, or gently scolding as Ma, Jones keeps listeners entranced. Pa's fiddle music, performed by Paul Woodiel, enhances the presentation. As with the print versions, putting the books' content into the context of events which happened over 100 years ago will help intermediate students understand why a song about "darkeys" would be included (Little House in the Big Woods), and why certain attitudes toward minorities, particularly Native Americans, are acceptable to the characters in the books.-.Judy Czarnecki, Chippewa River District Library System, Mt. Pleasant, MI Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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