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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Often an entertainer will capture a child's imagination and spark life-long interests. With this series, readers get to know favorite authors and entertainers. R.L. Stine, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dr. Seuss, and others are profiled in these informative biographies.
-- Excellent resource for reports, research, and reference
-- Supports language, reading, and social studies curriculum
-- Large, easy-to-read text
-- Excellent resource for reports, research, and reference
-- Supports language, reading, and social studies curriculum
-- Large, easy-to-read text
- GenresBiography
32 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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June 25, 2017
This book is a juvenile biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was born in 1867 in Wisconsin and as a young child moved to Missouri to Kansas. While in Kansas, her father built a log cabin. The family lived off the land until they were forced to go back to Wisconsin. Laura and her family enjoyed their time in Wisconsin, but then Charles, her father, argued that there were too many people in Wisconsin and moved the family again. He wanted to go west!
Laura's family dealt with many hardships over the years. Grasshoppers ate their entire wheat crop one year and their spawn ate the crop the next year. Her baby brother Freddie die while visiting family in Minnesota. She worked odd jobs to help support her family. The biggest hardship was when her sister had a stroke in 1879. This caused her to lose eyesight and rely on Laura to take care of her.
After Charles heard of available jobs out west, he upended his family again to what is now South Dakota. There he built a summer house in the country and a winter house in town. One year, the winter was so harsh, the people in their town ran out of food. Almanzo Wilder and a friend risked their lives to secure wheat from another town to make bread. She ended up wedding him at the age of eighteen.
Hardships continued for Laura and Almanzo. High winds and drought wilted the crops, illness ravaged them both, and they had two children but their son died twelve days later. Laura and Almanzo ended up moving back to DeSmet in defeat. After another move, Laura and Almanzo slowly turned their lives around. They grew crops and raised animals. Laura wrote a regular column about farmsteading life too, though she slowed her writing in 1924 after her mother and sister Mary passed away.
Her writing picked back up and she started writing children's stories, what she is most known for. Her Little House on the Prairie series is know the world over.
This book, though considered a juvenile biography, was very rich with information. The text painted the picture of a strong woman who faced many hardships but overcome them all. I liked this book and hope to use this and others like this to teach my students.
Laura's family dealt with many hardships over the years. Grasshoppers ate their entire wheat crop one year and their spawn ate the crop the next year. Her baby brother Freddie die while visiting family in Minnesota. She worked odd jobs to help support her family. The biggest hardship was when her sister had a stroke in 1879. This caused her to lose eyesight and rely on Laura to take care of her.
After Charles heard of available jobs out west, he upended his family again to what is now South Dakota. There he built a summer house in the country and a winter house in town. One year, the winter was so harsh, the people in their town ran out of food. Almanzo Wilder and a friend risked their lives to secure wheat from another town to make bread. She ended up wedding him at the age of eighteen.
Hardships continued for Laura and Almanzo. High winds and drought wilted the crops, illness ravaged them both, and they had two children but their son died twelve days later. Laura and Almanzo ended up moving back to DeSmet in defeat. After another move, Laura and Almanzo slowly turned their lives around. They grew crops and raised animals. Laura wrote a regular column about farmsteading life too, though she slowed her writing in 1924 after her mother and sister Mary passed away.
Her writing picked back up and she started writing children's stories, what she is most known for. Her Little House on the Prairie series is know the world over.
This book, though considered a juvenile biography, was very rich with information. The text painted the picture of a strong woman who faced many hardships but overcome them all. I liked this book and hope to use this and others like this to teach my students.
January 4, 2012
Growing up watching Little House on the Praire, I enjoyed reading this book. It's a short read. I actually borrowed it from my kids' school library. I do a lot of volunteering there. I never knew that Laura Ingalls was a real person and not just a character on tv series.
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