On the Banks of Plum Creek

On the Banks of Plum Creek
Front dust jacket with Sewell's illustration
AuthorLaura Ingalls Wilder
IllustratorHelen Sewell and
Mildred Boyle
Garth Williams (1953)[1]
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLittle House
GenreChildren's novel
Family saga
Western
Set inRedwood County, Minnesota, 1874–76
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date
October 20, 1937[2]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages239;[3] 338 pp.[1]
OCLC1291009
813.52
LC ClassPZ7.W6461 On[3]
Preceded byLittle House on the Prairie 
Followed byBy the Shores of Silver Lake 

On the Banks of Plum Creek is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, "The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods".

The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938, as were the next four Little House books through 1944.[4]

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