complete set of little house on the prairie books

When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of De Smet. Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory. In a week's time, there is no wheat crop left at all. Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. There is still time for fun, though, especially with the horses, which Almanzo loves more than anything. Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days - no matter what the weather.

While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. All night long, the wind howls lonesomely, but Pa plays the fiddle and sings, keeping the family safe and cozy. In those same woods, Laura lives with Pa and Ma, and her sisters, Mary and Baby Carrie, in a snug little house built of logs.

Wolves and panthers and bears roam the deep Wisconsin woods in the late 1870's. This set includes: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years. These nine books, beloved by children for generations, capture the very best of the American pioneer spirit.

But there were also happy times of love and laughter, sleigh rides, holiday celebrations, and socials. Crops were ruined by storms and grasshopper plagues. Born in 1867 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods in Wisconsin, Laura traveled with her family by covered wagon through Kansas, Minnesota, and finally the Dakota Territory, where she met and married Almanzo Wilder. The Little House books tell the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who, with her family, was among the early pioneers of the American west.

Complete set of little house on the prairie books