Akron Public Library

An abridged version of the story of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as she feels the effects of the War of 1812 while living with her family near Boston.

A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the west coast in 1915.

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

A collection of the rediscovered writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

Articles and fictional works by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, some of which were published in magazines of an earlier era, create a chronological account of their lives.

Discusses the life and works of the woman whose many moves with her family in her childhood provided the material to create her famous "Little House" books.

Rose meets a girl named Alva, a neighbor at her Missouri farm, and together they explore the hills, pick pokeweed, explore a cave, and have other adventures in the Ozark Mountains.

"Laura Ingalls Wilder has long been admired for being a strong, yet sensitive, woman ahead of her time. She felt that in order to appreciate how far you have come, as a nation and as a people, you must first know where you began. Wilder believed that Americans needed only to be reminded of the things that made them great: not automobiles and airplanes, but self-reliance and character. And so it is to her rediscovered journalistic writings that Words...