Little House on the Prairie

Little House Books
	First edition hardcover (1935) of the most frequently adapted volume (third in the series)
	Little House in the Big Woods; Farmer Boy; Little House on the Prairie; On the Banks of Plum Creek; By the Shores of Silver Lake; The Long Winter; Little Town on the Prairie; These Happy Golden Years; The First Four Years;
Author	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Published	1932–1943, 1971
No. of books	9

The Little House on the Prairie books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The stories are based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest (Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri) between 1870 and 1894.^[1] Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers in the 1930s and 1940s, during her lifetime. The name "Little House" appears in the first and third novels in the series, while the third is identically titled Little House on the Prairie. The second novel, meanwhile, was about her husband's childhood.

The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the series.^[2] A tenth book, the non-fiction On the Way Home, is Laura Ingalls Wilder's diary of the years after 1894, when she, her husband and their daughter moved from De Smet, South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently. It was also published posthumously, in 1962, and includes commentary by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane.

The Little House books have been adapted for stage or screen more than once, most successfully as the American television series Little House on the Prairie, which ran from 1974 to 1983.^[3] As well as an anime (Laura, the Prairie Girl) and many spin-off books, there are cookbooks and various other licensed products representative of the books.^[4]

^ Fraser, Caroline (2017). Prairie Fires. New York: Metropolitan Book. p. 2. ISBN 9781627792769.
^ Anderson, William (1992). Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography. New York: Harper Trophy. pp. 13. ISBN 978-0-06-020113-5.
^ Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, March 30, 1974, retrieved April 11, 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Fraser, Caroline (2017). Prairie Fires. New York: Metropolitan Books. p. 4.

[1] Fraser, Caroline (2017). Prairie Fires. New York: Metropolitan Book. p. 2. ISBN 9781627792769.

[2] Anderson, William (1992). Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography. New York: Harper Trophy. pp. 13. ISBN 978-0-06-020113-5.

[:5-3] Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, March 30, 1974, retrieved April 11, 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[4] Fraser, Caroline (2017). Prairie Fires. New York: Metropolitan Books. p. 4.

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First edition hardcover (1935) of the most frequently adapted volume (third in the series)
Little House in the Big Woods Farmer Boy Little House on the Prairie On the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter Little Town on the Prairie These Happy Golden Years The First Four Years
Author	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Published	1932–1943, 1971
No. of books	9