These Happy Golden Years

These Happy Golden Years
	Front dust jacket with Sewell's illustration
Author	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator	Helen Sewell and ; Mildred Boyle; Garth Williams (1953)
Country	United States
Series	Little House
Genre	Children's novel ; Family saga ; Western
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication date	March 17, 1943
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	299; 288 pp.
OCLC	2145915
LC Class	PZ7.W6461 Th
Preceded by	Little Town on the Prairie
Followed by	The First Four Years

These Happy Golden Years is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1943, the eighth of nine books in her Little House series – although it originally ended it.^[1] It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry.

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

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